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Originally Posted by Gerald
Never heard this story [history] about LA.
I do kind of remember something about the flag: "a single white star on a blue field". Maybe I have seen a flag like that somewhere in the past.
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I think it's on the signs on the side of I-12 that say something about the Florida Expressway or something like that. I always wondered why it was called that and why we had 'Florida parishes'.
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Found this containing the Republic of West Florida Parkway.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baton_Rouge,_Louisiana
And this with information on West Florida
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...lived_Republic