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Alexandria (City of Louisana)

a city of Louisana, the county-seat of Rapides parish, about 192 miles N. W. of New Orleans. It is on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the Louisiana and Arkansas, the St.

Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, and other railroads. It is also on the Red river. The city is the center of important commercial and industrial interests, has manufactures of cotton, cottonseed oil, sugar, molasses, and lumber, and is also important as an agricultural center, producing corn, rice, fruit, and vegetables. The city has a handsome Government building, public library, Elks' Home, and an opera house. Pop. (1910) 11,213; (1920) 17,510.