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Offers the Tourist
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Louisiana Hospital for Mental Diseases, and Clinton, with its historic courthouse and numbers of colonial homes of untold beauty and tradition.
Also near St. Francisville, to the west, is Angola, site of the state penal farm, a well-governed, almost self-supporting institution. The road to Angola winds through the beautiful Tunica Hills, one of the show spots of the state.
South of St. Francisville, on No. 65, the tourist passes through the fertile ?plains? country southward toward Baton Rouge.
U. S. Highway No. 51
Perhaps one of the most important highways in the state enters Louisiana from Mississippi at Osyka. This route is U. S. Highway No. 51, connecting New Orleans with Memphis, Chicago and other northern and middle-western points. The first town of importance on this route, south of Osyka, is Kentwood, center of dairying interests, thence Amite, Independence, Hammond and Ponchatoula, pivot towns of the famous strawberry belt of Louisiana. Amite is also the site of large sand and gravel pits, and there is located the plant of the Gullett Gin company, the oldest factory in the state.
Several miles south of Ponchatoula No. 51 crosses an inlet between Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maure-pas at Manchac, thence winds its way through extensive truck farming sections. At LaPlace this route connects with U. S. Nos. 61 and 65 and into New Orleans, crossing the Bonnet Carre spillway.
U. S. Highway No. 80
The Dixie-Overland route, U. S. Highway No. 80, passes through the northern section of the state from a point west of Shreveport to Vicksburg, Miss., and provides a number of points of interest for the tourist. Travelling eastward from Shreveport, the first town reached is Minden, then Gibsland, Arcadia, Ruston, West Monroe, Monroe, Ravville, Delhi, Tallulah, Delta Point and Vicksburg. The beautiful hill section of North Louisiana is