Southern Living Magazine "Best Of" Poll
No one knows the South better than we Covingtonians, so cast your vote on the places that represent the best of Southern culture and hospitality … Best Restaurants, Best BBQ, Best Gumbo, Best Hotel. Oh, of course, Best Small City ;).
If your favorite choice isn't listed be sure to write it in:
Southern Living Mag Poll
Once there click on the box "Click Here to Enter Survey"
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The Pool is Open!
Peter Atkins Park
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Corner of 27th Ave. and Polk Street
Beat the heat and cool off at the City Pool (free) Tuesdays through Sundays from 11:00am - 5:00pm.
Mayor Mark did : )
Last day is August 6th.
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Playmakers Scavenger Hunt
Location: Your Attic
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If you’ve seen the “Seasons'' page on playmakersinc.com, many of their previous productions are represented by show programs and posters. If you find and loan any programs or posters they do not already have, Playmakers will give you a free ticket to a show. For every program or poster you produce, you'll receive one ticket (limit 5 per person). More than 5 and you'll get a season ticket! If more than one person finds the same missing item, the first one who contacts them gets the prize.
This will help Playmakers Theater recreate some of its missing past. Playmakers is one of the longest operating community theaters in the U.S. so their history is important to our community of Covington. Email them at info@playmakersinc.com when you find your treasures.
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Great Cities of the South
Houston - Memphis - Covington
(more free music)
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Eat More Beans
(And Support the United Way)
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Food Bank's Adult Spelling Bee
Exchange Club's Ultimate Tailgate Party
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Broadway Tunes With a Covington Flair
Jon Cleary in September
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Slidell, 13th Largest City in LA |
1) The population of Slidell proper is 27,000. Question: What is the population of greater Slidell?
(Answers to all questions at the bottom of the page)
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2) True or False: In 1830, Slidell’s Founder, John Slidell, settled on the west side of the Pearl River. He then built a lumber mill on Bayou Bonfouca near Front Street. He traversed from home to the mill on a pathway which today is Gause Boulevard.
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Bernard de Marigny's Sister's Grandson | |
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Bernard de Marigny de Mandeville
3) True or False:
Bernard de Marigny de Mandeville’s sister’s adopted
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Governor William CC Claiborne
daughter’s son married Governor CC Claiborne’s daughter and they lived in Lewisburg.
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4) True or False: In 1973, Sean Connery filmed the James Bond movie “Live and Let Die” on Bayou Liberty and Bonfouca in and around Slidell. | | | |
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Chinchuba Village
Ain't Dere no More
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5) True or False: In 1902, the Chinchuba Institute for Deaf Mutes complex accommodated 49 children and was run by 14 Sisters of Notre Dame. The settlement once included a post office, a train station, Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church, the Institute, numerous homes and farms. Located northwest of Madisonville on Dummyline Road, all that remains today is the cemetery.
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1) Greater Slidell's population is about 90,000 people with only 27,000 living in the city limits. The rest, like most residents of the Parish, live in unincorporated St. Tammany Parish. Similarly, the residents of Metairie do not live in a city. They live in unincorporated Jefferson Parish.
The City of Covington has a population of almost 12,000, but the Covington zip code (people with Covington addresses) numbers over 60,000.
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2) True: Bernard’s sister, Celeste Marigny Livaudais had a ward, Marie Tabiteau, who married Covington’s founder, John Wharton Collins. Collins received $2,000 dowry from the Livaudaises, then bought the property we know today as Covington from Jacques Dreux, great-great-great (not sure how many greats) uncle to Donald and Keith Villere, former respective mayors of Mandeville and Covington. John Wharton Collins served as aide-de-camp to Governor Claiborne in the Battle of New Orleans. Governor Claiborne had a family compound near the Chimes restaurant, the area we know as Claiborne Hill. The white building in front of the Chimes is the Claiborne Courthouse built in 1818. | |
3) False: In 1830 a settler named John Gause (not John Slidell) settled on the west side of the Pearl River, then built a sawmill near Front Street and Hwy 190. He traversed from his cabin to the mill on what we know today as Gause Blvd.
In 1888, John Slidell's father-in-law helped finance the construction of the railroad, the New Orleans and Northeastern, around the east side of Lake Ponchartrain. The depot near Front Street and US Hwy 190 was named Slidell after the son-in-law.
To my knowledge, John Slidell never visited Slidell.
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Roger Moore filmed "Live and Let Die" in and around Slidell in 1973 (not Sean Connery ; ).
He was such a Saint.
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Chinchuba Institute for Deaf Mutes | |
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5) All is true except the location: Founded in 1890 by the Archdiocese of New Orleans, the Chinchuba Institute for Deaf Mutes complex accommodated 49 children and was run by 14 Sisters of Notre Dame. The settlement once included a post office, a train station, Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church, the Institute, numerous homes and farms.
Chinchuba Institute was actually located in present day Mandeville along Hwy. 190 between the Post Office and Parc du Lac subdivision.
After burning down in about 1940, the school relocated to Marrero where it continued to operate until June of 2019.
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Chinchuba Institute was one of the first schools in the nation devoted specifically to teaching hearing-disabled children to speak.
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... but there is a Dummyline Road | |
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The Dendinger family had a sawmill located on the Tchefuncte River in downtown Madisonville (next to the old Friend's Restaurant, now Tchefuncte's). Dendinger descendants include the Poole family we know today.
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The family owned all the property from the Tchefuncte River to the other side of Ponchatoula ... all the way to Springfield. The sawmill had a train that ran out into the forest. The loggers could cut trees and load them onto rail cars bound for the mill. The track did not go anywhere.
It was a "dummyline." Today, we know it as Dummyline Road.
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Replies to this e-mail go directly to Mayor Mark.
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Know someone suffering from an addiction (any addiction, not just drug or alcohol)? Celebrate Recovery meets every Tuesday night at First Baptist in Covington at 16333 LA Hwy 1085 i.e. corner Bootlegger and LA 21 (the old worship center) @ 7:00 pm. | |
Rooted in History, Focused on the Future | | | | |
