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Folsom is a village in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 716 at the 2010 census, [ 4] and 769 in 2020. The town is named after the wife of Grover Cleveland, Frances Folsom. [ 5] It is part of the New Orleans – Metairie – Kenner metropolitan statistical area .
A Folsom projectile point. Folsom points are projectile points associated with the Folsom tradition of North America.The style of tool-making was named after the Folsom site located in Folsom, New Mexico, where the first sample was found in 1908 by George McJunkin within the bone structure of an extinct bison, Bison antiquus, an animal hunted by the Folsom people. [1]
Periods in North American prehistory. Lithic stage. before 8500 BC. Archaic period. 8000–1000 BC. Formative stage. 1000 BC – AD 500. Woodland period. 1000 BC – AD 1000.
The Folsom tradition is a Paleo-Indian archaeological culture that occupied much of central North America from c. 10800 BCE to c. 10200 BCE. The term was first used in 1927 by Jesse Dade Figgins, director of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. [ 2] The discovery by archaeologists of projectile points in association with the bones of ...
Antebellum Louisiana was a leading slave state, where by 1860, 47% of the population was enslaved. Louisiana seceded from the Union on January 26, 1861, joining the Confederate States of America. New Orleans, the largest city in the entire South at the time, and strategically important port city, was taken by Union troops on April 25, 1862.
Preceding the Poverty Point Culture is the Watson Brake site in present-day Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, where eleven earthwork mounds were built beginning about 3500 BC. Watson Brake is one of the earliest mound complexes in the Americas. [2] Next oldest is the Poverty Point Culture, which thrived from 1730 to 1350 BC, during the late Archaic ...
Opened in 1880, Folsom is the state's second-oldest prison, after San Quentin, and the first in the United States to have electricity. [3] Folsom was also one of the first maximum security prisons. It has been the execution site of 93 condemned prisoners. [4] Musician Johnny Cash put on two live performances at the prison on January 13, 1968.
Folsom, California. / 38.67222°N 121.15778°W / 38.67222; -121.15778. Folsom is a city in Sacramento County, California, United States. The population was 80,454 at the 2020 census.