Nickname: The Bayou State

Capital: Baton Rouge

Louisiana is celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase which included close to one third of the entire United States and reached all the way up to Montana.

Baton Rouge is French for red stick. Native Americans here marked their hunting ground boundaries with sticks dipped in blood.

Cajuns are actually Acadians exiled from L’Acadie which is now Nova Scotia, Canada.

When you stay at a state park here, you get a free sample of Creole seasoning.