Ruston, Louisiana Ruston, Louisiana Nickname(s): Louisiana's College Town; The Peach City; Rus Vegas Ruston, Louisiana is positioned in Louisiana Ruston, Louisiana - Ruston, Louisiana Louisiana Louisiana 146.svg Louisiana 146.svg Louisiana 544.svg Louisiana 818.svg Louisiana 3012.svg Louisiana 3061.svg Ruston is a small town/city and the church seat of Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States. it is the biggest city in the Eastern Ark-La-Tex region.
As of the 2010 United States Census, the populace was 21,859, reflecting an increase of 6.4 percent from the count of 20,546 counted in the 2000 Census. Ruston is near the easterly border of the Ark-La-Tex region and is the home of Louisiana Tech University.
Ruston is the principal town/city of the Ruston Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Lincoln church.
Large Greenwood Cemetery in Ruston has graves from the American Civil War era and is the resting place of Robert Edwin Russ, the founder of Ruston, and the publisher Clarence Faulk.
During the Reconstruction era following the Civil War, word soon reached the young church near what is now Ruston, that the Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Pacific Railroad would begin to run athwart north Louisiana, linking the Deep South with the West (the current operator is Kansas City Southern Railway).
Robert Edwin Russ, the Lincoln Parish sheriff from 1877 1880, donated 640 acres (2.6 km2) to the town and this region was eventually known as Ruston (shorthand for Russ town). The GI Bill of Rights sent war veterans to college, helped to fuel the small-town economy, brought expansion to the two small-town universities, Louisiana Tech University and close-by historically black Grambling State University, and new families moved into Lincoln Parish.
Ruston, however, continued burgeoning steadily because of the rapid expansion of Louisiana Tech.
A joint accomplishment between the town/city and the Louisiana Main Street Program and the Louisiana Department of Historic Preservation brought forth beautification projects to rehabilitate the downtown district, and helped draw the improve closer to its roots.
Climate data for Ruston (Louisiana Tech Golf Course), 1981 2010 normals Most cultural activities are offered through Louisiana Tech.
The Louisiana Tech University Arboretum interests many visitors.
It will look citywide at residentiary evolution and neighborhoods, recreation planning, transit issues, economic development, transit framework concerns, character of life, and working collaboratively with Louisiana Tech University.
Opened in 1928, the historic Dixie Theater serves as the visual and performing arts core of Ruston as it homes the North Central Louisiana Arts Council, Piney Hills Gallery, Ruston Community Theatre, Ruston Civic Symphony Society, Troupe Dixie, autonomous film screenings, dance recitals, and music concerts. Celebrity Theatres, an eight-screen movie theater with digital projection and sound with 3 - D capabilities and stadium seating in all auditoriums, opened in Ruston in 2006. On ground at Louisiana Tech, Howard Auditorium and Stone Theatre serve as the university's home for the performing arts, and Louisiana Tech is home to two visual art arcades including the E.
Bellocq Gallery and the Louisiana Tech Art Gallery.
The Louisiana Military Museum features uniforms, weapons, flags, training gear, airplane , and vehicles from nearly every conflict in United States history. Built in 1886, the Kidd-Davis home is home to the Lincoln Parish Museum, which exhibits early Ruston history. Located on Louisiana Tech's chief campus, The Idea Place Math and Science Discovery Center offers many interactive science exhibits including a planetarium. Ruston is positioned in the heart of North Louisiana, known as the Sportsman's Paradise, where outside activities like hunting and fishing are prominent for residents.
Located on the Louisiana Tech campus, Garland Gregory Hideaway Park has a 7-acre lake for fishing and canoeing, walking/running trails, pavilions, grills, ropes course, and an 18-hole frisbee golf course. The North Louisiana Exhibition Center hosts rodeos, barrel competitions, horse and livestock shows, roping affairs, and antique car and tractor shows in Ruston. As home to the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs and Lady Techsters of Conference USA, Ruston is a scene of primary college sports.
The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team plays at Joe Aillet Stadium and has won three nationwide championships, won 25 conference championships, and played in 24 postseason games including nine primary college bowl games. The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs basketball and Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball squads play their games at the Thomas Assembly Center.
The Dunkin' Dawgs have won 25 regular season conference championships, made seven NCAA Tournament appearances including one Sweet Sixteen, and nine NIT appearances. The Lady Techsters have won three nationwide championships and 20 regular season conference championships; have competed in 13 Final Fours, 23 Sweet Sixteens, and 27 NCAA Tournaments; and have the second most wins all-time of any women's college basketball program. The Louisiana Tech Bulldogs baseball team plays at J.
In 1947, region peach growers organized the Louisiana Fruit Growers Association and held the first festival four years later on June 27 28, 1951.
On that occasion, Justin Wilson, the prominent south Louisiana chef and Cajun humorist entertained the audience at Howard Auditorium on the Louisiana Tech campus.
The festival sponsors competitions of 5 - K and 1 - M and a tennis tournament played on the Louisiana Tech courts. Musicians from all over the nation gather annually in Ruston to jam together and to raise cash to expanded the guitar music scholarship established at LA Tech by this event's organizers; the musicians in the Ruston region who shared the stage with John Simoneaux who was tragically killed in 2000 in an auto accident in Texas as he was headed to Austin for his next gig.
Public schools are part of the Lincoln Parish School System. Eight of the twelve Lincoln Parish Schools are positioned in Ruston.
Lincoln Parish Early Childhood Center operates the church's preschool program in Ruston.
Cypress Springs Elementary School and Ruston Elementary School teach third undertaking through fifth grade.
Lewis School teaches only sixth grade, and Ruston Junior High School teaches seventh and eighth grades.
Ruston High School teaches ninth through twelfth grades.
Located on Louisiana Tech's ground in Ruston, A.
Lorraine Nobles Howard Education Center, known as Howard School, is an alternative school for the inhabitants of the Louisiana Methodist Children's Home in Ruston. Louisiana Tech University, a top tier nationwide research university, dominates the town/city of Ruston, providing the town/city with its distinct ive college town character.
Historically black Grambling State University is positioned in close-by Grambling, only four miles west of the Louisiana Tech campus.
The Ruston Daily Leader is the journal serving Ruston and the rest of Lincoln Parish since 1894.
Louisiana Tech University is served by a several publications including The Tech Talk, the autonomous Louisiana Tech student journal that reports on local, state, and nationwide issues in addition to ground news.
89.1 KLPI Alternative Louisiana Tech University 101.3 KBNF-LP 80's Rock Ruston High School The longstanding Dixie Theater in Ruston is featured in a 1999 article in the printed announcement North Louisiana History. He attended Ruston High School.
A vampire on the series is seen wearing a Louisiana Tech Bulldogs sweatshirt.
Tanglewood, Ruston, Louisiana Chase Bank is positioned athwart from the Ruston City Hall (2010).
The large Temple Baptist Church is positioned on the south side of Interstate 20 near the Louisiana Tech University exit.
Trace Adkins, nation singer who attended Louisiana Tech; originally from Sarepta Stephen Babcock, high-profile Louisiana trial lawyer who attended Ruston High School, and Louisiana Tech University.
Leon Barmore, basketball coach who was born and reared in Ruston, played basketball at Louisiana Tech Bond, president of Louisiana Tech University from 1929 to 1936 Terry Bradshaw, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, attended Louisiana Tech Kix Brooks, nation music singer, who attended Louisiana Tech.
Brown, retired NBA player, attended Louisiana Tech Known as "Mary Beth", she was a medical technologist and a graduate of Louisiana Tech.
Byrd, president of Louisiana Tech, and founder of C.E.
John Ardis Cawthon, education professor and county-wide historian at Louisiana Tech University Jimmy Childress, Ruston High School state and nationwide championship football coach Conniff, educator, president of Louisiana Tech from 1926 to 1928 Claybrook Cottingham, president of Louisiana College from 1910 1941, and Louisiana Tech president from 1941 until his death in 1949 Fred Dean, NFL Hall of Fame, attended Ruston High and Louisiana Tech Hollis Downs, former state representative; financial analyst; Louisiana Tech professor Tim Floyd, NCAA and NBA basketball coach, attended Louisiana Tech Friley, founder of Ruston College in late 1880s, a forerunner of Louisiana Tech; later president of Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, and Louisiana College in Pineville, succeeded there in 1910 by Claybrook Cottingham Ray Germany, Louisiana Tech Bulldogs basketball player and Minden High School basketball coach; current resident of Haughton and 2016 inductee into the Ark-La-Tex Museum of Champions Billy Guin, Louisiana Republican Party pioneer from Shreveport; reared in his early youth in Ruston Will Cullen Hart, indie modern musician, visual artist, and beginning member of the Elephant Six Collective and The Olivia Tremor Control, and prestige of Circulatory System, attended Ruston High School and was a disc jockey at Louisiana Tech's airways broadcast KLPI Berry Hinton, baseball coach and Louisiana Tech alumni secretary Sonja Hogg, beginning coach of the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters Hunt, III, Louisiana Public Service Commissioner from 1964 1972, was born in Ruston.
Charles Jacobs, judge of the Louisiana 26th Judicial District Court since 2015; reared in Ruston, where his parents held faculty positions at Louisiana Tech University Bert Jones, former NFL player, attended Ruston High School Dub Jones, former NFL player, attended Ruston High.
Kilpatrick, mortician and former member of the Louisiana State Senate Lomax, state representative who in 1894 introduced the enabling legislation, Act 68, to establish Louisiana Tech University Karl Malone, Basketball Hall of Famer, attended Louisiana Tech, presently lives in Ruston Jeff Mangum, indie modern musician and beginning member of the Elephant Six Collective and Neutral Milk Hotel, attended Ruston High School and was a disc jockey at Louisiana Tech's airways broadcast KLPI Paul Millsap, current NBA player, attended Louisiana Tech Ryan Moats, athlete, attended Louisiana Tech Luke Mc - Cown, NFL quarterback, attended Louisiana Tech Kim Mulkey, current head women's basketball coach at Baylor University, whose longterm position as a player at Louisiana Tech placed her in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame Virgil Orr, former state representative; Louisiana Tech vice president Joe Raymond Peace, former football coach of Louisiana Tech Bulldogs and Ruston resident Prescott, educator and beginning president from 1894 to 1899 of Louisiana Tech University Pyburn, state representative for Caddo Parish 1948-1952; attorney in Shreveport and later Washington, D.C., resided in Ruston from 1925 to 1932 Tim Rattay, athlete, attended Louisiana Tech Richardson, president of Louisiana Tech from 1936 1941 Willie Roaf, NFL Hall of Fame player, attended Louisiana Tech Scotty Robertson, high school, college, and experienced basketball coach, died in Ruston in 2011 Robinson, mathematics professor and second president of Louisiana Tech from 1899 to 1900 Robert Schneider, Indie modern musician, record producer, beginning member of the Elephant Six Collective, and frontman of The Apples in Stereo, attended Ruston High School Josh Scobee, current NFL player, attended Louisiana Tech Mickey Slaughter, former NFL quarterback, attended , and later coached football for, Louisiana Tech Snyder, English professor at Louisiana Tech, a founder of the Lincoln Parish Library Matt Stover, current NFL player, attended Louisiana Tech Lawson Swearingen, reared in Ruston, former state senator, president of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, and professor of management at Southeastern Louisiana University Jay Taylor, president of Louisiana Tech, 1962 1987 David William Thomas lived in Ruston amid the early 1930s while he headed the Louisiana Tech Journalism Department Kyle Williams, current NFL player, attended Ruston High "Louisiana Mob Lynches Negro".
"62nd Peach Festival in Ruston June 22", The Piney Woods Journal, June 2012, pp.
Erin Toler, "The Dixie Theater of Ruston," North Louisiana History, Vol.
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