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From 1918 to 1919, a serial killer, dubbed the “Axeman” haunted New Orleans. Focusing primarily on Italian Immigrants, he attacked his victims with an axe, killing some, but not all of them in the process. Today the identity of the Axeman remains unknown.
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Imagine if you will, being a young girl, a student at an all-girls school in New Orleans, Louisiana. This was a new school, a primary school for young African-American ladies. A place to learn and grow. But unfortunately, that’s not all that would happen. You would be physically assaulted, running to your teacher with your sleeve rolled up, showing your forearm, scratched and bruised. You can’t help but cry, and when the teacher would ask, “Who did this to you?” the only thing you could say was, “That woman.” What woman would do such a thing? Who, or rather what, was in that school? What if I told you, that the school was once known as the LaLaurie Mansion?
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“One day I’m gonna die, and I’m gonna take all of you with me,” Julia Brown sang in the days leading up to her death. Then a hurricane hit, taking the lives of over 350, killing all but 2 residents of Fenrir, Louisiana.
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Myrtles Plantation is currently a Bed and Breakfast located in St. Francisville, Louisiana. Build in 1796 by General David Bradford “Whiskey Dave,” when he fled the United States to avoid arrest and imprisonment for his role in the Pennsylvania Whiskey Rebellion. At that time, this part of Louisiana was a Spanish Colony, and Bradford obtained a land grant of 650 acres to begin a new life.
In 1799, Bradford was pardoned by President John Adams, and he promptly moved his wife Elizabeth and their five children into the plantation with him. He died in 1808, and Elizabeth continued to run the plantation until 1817, when she handed management over to Judge Clarke Woodruff, one of Bradford’s former law students, and the husband of his daughter, Sara Mathilda.
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