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Alcon offices in Johns Creek, Georgia. Alcon Inc. ( German: Alcon AG) is a Swiss-American pharmaceutical and medical device company specializing in eye care products. It has a paper headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland but its operational headquarters are in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, where it employs about 4,500 people. [2]
Wellan's Department Store started as a small store on Second Street in Alexandria and was founded by Louis Wellan. It had many items for sale such as dresses, menswear, and some toys and furniture. It coined itself as a new family-oriented store in central Louisiana, and conducted business in just that manner.
Alexandria Welcome Sign on Louisiana Highway 28 West. Alexandria is the ninth-largest city in the state of Louisiana and is the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. [2] It lies on the south bank of the Red River in almost the exact geographic center of the state.
Hemenway Furniture Co. Building. / 31.31222°N 92.44611°W / 31.31222; -92.44611. Hemenway Furniture Co. Building is located in the central business district of Alexandria, Louisiana. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [ 1]
Built by Buddy Tudor 's family-owned construction company from Pineville, Alexandria Mall opened in 1973 [ 1] with JCPenney, Sears, Beall-Ladymon (a chain based in Shreveport, Louisiana ), and local department stores Weiss & Goldring, Green's and Wellan's. At the time, the mall also featured a two screened Cinema called Cinema I & II and was ...
The main branch of the Rapides Parish Library is located in downtown Alexandria. Rapides Parish ( / ˈræpiːdz /) ( French: Paroisse des Rapides) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 130,023. [1] The parish seat is Alexandria, which developed along the Red River of the South. [2]
Contents. Consolidated city-county. In United States local government, a consolidated city-county (also known as either a city-parish or a consolidated government in Louisiana, depending on the locality, [ 1 ] or a unified municipality, unified home rule borough, or city and borough[ 2 ][ 3 ] in Alaska) is formed when one or more cities and ...
On December 7, 1810, William C. C. Claiborne, governor of the Orleans Territory, annexed the short-lived Republic of West Florida to the United States and Louisiana as Feliciana County. On December 22, 1810, the county west of the Pearl River was organized in four civil parishes: East Baton Rouge, Feliciana, St. Helena, and St. Tammany.