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If you're in a poetic kind of mood, you could ruminate about how there are 64 pieces of the puzzle that is Louisiana. Or you could just call them parishes, ...

Map of Louisiana Purchase (Library of Congress ... The United States could have the entire Louisiana Territory (Including New Orleans) for 15 million! Roughly 530,000,000 acres of land, for ...

Fifteen million dollars is the original amount spent by the U.S. to France for The Louisiana Purchase, and by today's standards, the price of the expansive territory is still considered a steal.

So, between the United States' purchase of the Louisiana territory from Napoleon in 1803 until its admission to the Union, the state was known as the Territory of Orleans. The Vernon Parish ...