| Rapides
was indeed one of the twelve original counties created when the Territory
of Orleans was divided in 1805. Without signs, we often forget the details.
There are signs in Alexandria that point to, and remind us of, the past.
Sometimes we pass the signs without seeing them, and without thinking. In
Alexandria, the center of town was the old City Hall, not the courthouse.
As Alan Jackson sings, "I remember walkin' 'round the court square
sidewalks, looking in windows at things I could not want..." |
