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ARTICLES RELATED TO Lake Charles Louisiana - Suburbs | | | |  Lake Charles Louisiana - Suburbs: Encyclopedia II - Lake Charles Louisiana - HistoryWhile several Indian tribes are known to have lived in the area of modern Lake Charles, the first European people, of French, Spanish, English, and Dutch descent, arrived in the 1760s. At the time, the area was covered with dense pine and baldcypress forests. Oral tradition holds that Jean Lafitte frequented Contraband Bayou and the lake before and after the War of 1812.
M. and Mme. LeBleu of Bordeaux, France were the first recorded Europeans to settle the area around 1781. The area they settled is now known as the LeBleu Settlement. ...
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Lake Charles Louisiana - Rideau retrial.
Lake Charles was the locale of the January 2005 retrial of Wilbert Rideau. Rideau, an African-American described by Life magazine in March 1993 as "the most rehabilitated prisoner in America", was three times convicted by all-white, all-male juries for a 1961 murder of a bank teller during a botched bank robbery. All three convictions were later overturned, but, to the surprise of many, Calcasieu Parish decided to try Rideau for a fourth time, despite the fact that ...
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| | | | Lake Charles Louisiana - Suburbs: Encyclopedia II - Lake Charles Louisiana - Transportation The city is located on Interstate 10, with Interstate 210 serving most of the city. Interstate 210 is a loop that provides interstate highway access throughout the city. U.S. Highway 90 and U.S. Highway 171 are other major roads connecting Lake Charles to nearby cities.
Airport service is provided by the Lake Charles Regional Airport. Chennault International Airport, while a fully operational airport, is an industrial center and provides no commercial air services. This latter airport is named for Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault, the aviator famous for comman ...
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| | | | Lake Charles Louisiana - Suburbs: Encyclopedia II - Lake Charles Louisiana - Demographics As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 71,757 people, 27,974 households, and 18,015 families residing in the city. The population density is 689.7/km² (1,786.6/mi²). There are 31,429 housing units at an average density of 302.1/km² (782.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 50.23% White, 46.82% African American, 0.23% Native American, 1.07% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.47% from other races, and 1.15% from two or more races. 1.40 ...
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| | | | Lake Charles Louisiana - Suburbs: Encyclopedia II - Lake Charles Louisiana - Geography The city is located on the banks of the Calcasieu River in southwestern Louisiana, and borders both Lake Charles and Prien Lake. It is a port on a deepwater channel to the Gulf of Mexico, and was first settled in 1852.
Lake Charles is located at 30°12'53" North, 93°12'31" West (30.214656, -93.208537)GR1.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 110.2 km² (42.5 mi²). 104.0 km² (40.2 mi²) of it is land and 6.1 km² (2.4 ...
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