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What Louisiana
HARRY D. WILSON Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration.
Offers the Tourist
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home of picturesque Louisiana State Normal College, Fort St. Jean Baptiste, Confederate trenches, and the statue of ?The Good Darkey,? erected to the memory of the ante-bellum Negro. Nearby are the bluffs of Grand Ecore and of Fort Selden, among the most beautiful in the state.
Three miles south of Colfax on No. 71 is Bynum Woods, a fine tract of virgin hardwood timber.
From Colfax the tourist enters Alexandria, ?in the heail of Louisiana,? gateway to the upper Red River valley. This city has splendid hotel and restaurant facilities, tourist camps, airport, beautiful parks, theaters, and other places of amusement. Across the Red River is Pineville, site of the Central Louisiana Hospital for Mental Diseases, historic Forts Randolph and Buhlow, Veterans Hospital, Louisiana College and Camp Beauregard, encampment for the National Guard, with rifle and artillery range. Hot Wells health resort is about 14 miles west of Alexandria on Bayou Rapides road. Central Louisiana Museum is at Louisiana College at Pineville.
Traveling in a southeast direction, the next important town is Bunkie. Continuing on No. 71, the Atchafa-laya river is crossed on a beautiful traffic bridge at Krotz Springs. This river is reputedly one of the deepest in the United States. From this point the tourist, following No. 71, enters Baton Rouge, the state capital, via ferry from Port Allen. A new highway and railroad bridge across the Mississippi is under construction, and will be completed within the next few months.
The new 33-story state capitol at Baton Rouge is the tallest building in the South, and there is an excellent view of surrounding country from the tower, open to the public. There is an outstanding museum in the basement of the capitol. The picturesque old capitol of Tudor architecture built in 1847 is being renovated. Louisiana State University, with its new and magnificent buildings, is located at Baton Rouge; also one of the largest oil refineries in the world, and numerous other industries. Baton Rouge offers the tourist excellent facilities for golf, tennis, picnic or camping sites along the beautiful Amite and Comite rivers east of the city, and