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On Nov. 6, 1982, crowds gathered in Metairie’s Lafreniere Park for a long-awaited dedication ceremony. In 1720, Nicholas Chauvin de la Freniere was granted 5000 acres of land known then as Elmwood Plantation, from Louisiana Gov. Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville. Freniere lived on the land with his wife and three children until he […]
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