Tallulah, Louisiana Tallulah, Louisiana Located athwart from the Madison Parish Courthouse is the Tallulah Municipal Building.
Parish Madison Location of Tallulah in Louisiana Abandoned Tallulah High School adjoining to First Baptist Church; the school was merged with the new Madison High School in Tallulah.
Louisiana Technical College, Tallulah ground Tallulah is a small town/city in and the church seat of Madison Parish in northeastern Louisiana, United States. The 2010 populace was 7,335, a decline of 1,854, or 20.2 percent, from the 9,189 tabulation at the 2000 census. The town/city is nearly 77 percent African American.
Tallulah is the principal town/city of the Tallulah Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Madison Parish.
The Madison Parish Sheriff's office operates the Steve Hoyle Rehabilitation Center in Tallulah.
3 The Seviers of Tallulah Feeling rejected, he titled the water stop for an old girlfriend titled Tallulah, freshwater the plantation owner. During the American Civil War, Union gunboats in Lake Providence headed south to Tallulah, where they burned the Vicksburg, Shreveport, and Texas Railroad's depot and captured Confederate supplies awaiting shipment to Indian Territory.
As of late 2013, it has been restored to its initial character and functions as an apartment complex. Madison Parish claims the title of place of birth of Delta Air Lines, and the initial airport building, Scott's Field, still stands near Tallulah, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Significant damage to an industrialized plant with injuries, trapped citizens and finished homes were reported in Madison Parish near the Louisiana-Mississippi state line.
Tallulah and Madison Parish have been the center of various members of the prominent Sevier family, who are descended from John Sevier, a soldier in the American Revolution.
Sevier, was a member of the Madison Parish Police Jury and served as the church tax assessor from 1891 1916. Andrew Leonard Sevier, Sr.
Andrew Jackson Sevier, Jr., served as sheriff of Madison Parish from 1904 until his death in office in 1941.
A cousin of the Seviers, Henry Clay Sevier, was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1936 52. Except for the years 1887 90, there was at least one member of the Sevier family in enhance office for the 122 years preceding 2005.
Mason Spencer, husband of Rosa Sevier Spencer, represented Madison Parish in the Louisiana House from 1924 36 and prepared to run for governor of Louisiana in 1935 but withdrew his candidacy, and victory went to Richard Leche of New Orleans.
Among the political leaders from this family were William Putnam "Buck" Sevier, Jr., a banker, town alderman, and mayor of Tallulah from 1946-74.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.7 square miles (7.0 km2), all land.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 37.6% under the age of 18, 10.9% from 18 to 24, 23.3% from 25 to 44, 17.6% from 45 to 64, and 10.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $17,142, and the median income for a family was $20,100.
Buddy Caldwell, Attorney General of Louisiana since 2008; former Madison, East Carroll, and Tensas church precinct attorney Joseph, represented Madison Parish in the Louisiana State Senate from 1924-32. Paxton, precinct attorney for Madison, East Carroll, and Tensas churches; native of Madison Parish; resides in St.
Andrew Jackson Sevier, Sheriff of Madison Parish from 1904 41.
Snyder, precinct attorney of Madison Parish from 1904 48.
"Tallulah, Louisiana".
Winters, The Civil War in Louisiana, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963; ISBN 0-8071-0834-0, p.
"Sevier Family of Madison Parish, Louisiana".
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