East Carroll Parish, Louisiana
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East Carroll Parish is a parish located in the Mississippi Delta in northeastern Louisiana. As of 2020, its population was 7,459. The parish seat is Lake Providence. An area of cotton plantations in the antebellum era, the parish in the early 21st century has about 74% of its land devoted to agriculture.
East Carroll Parish Courthouse in Lake Providence
Beginning corn crop (2013) surrounds both sides of the Louisiana State Cotton Museum in Lake Providence
The city of Lake Providence is named for the oxbow lake
A dock on Lake Providence
Lake Providence, Louisiana
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Lake Providence is a town in, and the parish seat of, East Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana. The population was 5,104 at the 2000 census and declined by 21.8 percent to 3,991 in 2010. The town's poverty rate is approximately 55 percent; the average median household income is $16,500, and the average age is 31.
Louisiana State Cotton Museum in 2013
Residence of African-American tenant farmer beside the Mississippi River levee near Lake Providence (June 1940)
Lake Providence City Hall is located across from the U.S. Post Office.
U.S. Post Office in Lake Providence contains a 1942 mural by Ethel Edwards titled Life on the Lake