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55-829: Tallulah , Talulah or Talullah may refer to: Places in the United States [ edit ] Tallulah, Louisiana , a city Tallulah (Jacksonville) , Florida Tallula, Illinois , a village Tallula, Mississippi , an unincorporated community Tallulah Gorge , Georgia Tallulah Ranger District , Georgia Tallulah River , Georgia People [ edit ] Tallulah (DJ) (1948–2008), German-born British DJ Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968), American actress Tallulah Greive (born 1997), Scottish actress Tallulah Haddon (born 1997), British actress, drag and performance artist, and model Tallulah Harlech (born 1988), English fashion stylist Tallulah Morgan (born 1948),

110-526: A Superior Court and Sheriff (as an officer of the court ), both located in a designated "shire town". Bennington County, Vermont has two shire towns; the court for "North Shire" is in the shire town Manchester , and the Sheriff for the county and court for "South Shire" are in the shire town Bennington. In 2024, Connecticut , which had not defined their counties for anything but statistical, historical and weather warning purposes since 1960, along with ending

165-452: A US Navy oiler See also [ edit ] Talulah Does the Hula , Irish pop band Talulah Gosh , English guitar-pop group " Talula ", a song by Tori Amos, 1996 Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tallulah . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

220-410: A county seat may be an independent city surrounded by, but not part of, the county of which it is the administrative center; for example, Fairfax City is both the county seat of Fairfax County, Virginia and completely surrounded by Fairfax County, but the city is politically independent of the county. When the county seat is in the independent city, government offices such as the courthouse may be in

275-524: A local veteran and activist, was elected as Police Chief of Tallulah, the first African American to hold the office. He ensured there were an equal number of white and black police officers on the force and had them patrol in mixed teams. In 1971, black candidates were running for 21 of 27 parish seats in Madison Parish, a sign of the changing times. In other parts of Louisiana, African Americans were also running for local offices. In 1974, Adell Williams

330-626: A major field of research in Chinese historical geography, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s. There are 1,355 counties in Mainland China out of a total of 2,851 county-level divisions. In Taiwan , the first counties were first established in 1661 by the Kingdom of Tungning . The later ruler Qing empire inherited this type of administrative divisions. With the increase of Han Chinese population in Taiwan,

385-640: A minor character in the Doctor Who episodes " Daleks in Manhattan " and " Evolution of the Daleks " Tallulah, a character that appears in the TV show Tickety Toc Tallulah, a chick from the children's books and show Maisy Music [ edit ] Tallulah (The Go-Betweens album) , 1987 Tallulah (Feeder album) or the title song, 2019 "Tallulah", a song by Allo Darlin' from Europe , 2012 "Tallulah",

440-647: A proposal to use the facility as an adult prison. Despite the desire of the townspeople, the facility was converted to house adult prisoners. It is known as the Madison Parish Louisiana Transitional Center for Women (LCTW), houses 535 inmates, and is operated by LaSalle Corrections, a private company. Other related facilities in Tallulah, as it is the parish seat, are the Madison Parish Detention Center, with 264 inmates, and

495-419: A ratio of 100 to one. The population increased in Tallulah in the decades after the war, reaching a high in 1980 (see tables below). African Americans were the majority population in the city and the parish. Having faced continuing discrimination in efforts to vote, in 1962 a group of eight African-American men successfully sued the parish registrar and state to be able to register and vote. Following passage of

550-432: A song by Company of Thieves from Running from a Gamble , 2011 "Talullah", a song by Jamiroquai from Dynamite , 2005 "Tallulah", a song by Patrick Hernandez , 1983 "Tallulah", a song by Sonata Arctica from Silence , 2001 Other uses [ edit ] Tallulah (film) , a 2016 film Tallulah , a one-woman show by Kathleen Turner , based on the life of Tallulah Bankhead USS Tallulah (AO-50) ,

605-711: A tanker in a chemical plant, causing a small nitrogen leak. Significant damage to an industrial plant with associated injuries, trapped people, and destroyed homes nearby were reported in Madison Parish near the Louisiana-Mississippi state line. The tornado continued across the Mississippi River . It gained strength and struck Yazoo , Holmes , and Choctaw counties in Mississippi, causing 10 fatalities and extensive destruction. Tallulah and Madison Parish have been led and represented politically by numerous members of

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660-427: Is a city in, and the parish seat of, Madison Parish in northeastern Louisiana , United States. As of the 2020 census , the population was 6,286, down from 7,335 in 2010 . As this was historically a center of agriculture since the antebellum years, producing cotton and pecans, Tallulah and the parish have long had majority- African American populations. The small city is now nearly 77 percent African American;

715-680: Is a one-story 1855 plantation house, known as Hermione , from the Kell Plantation. It was used by Grant as a Union hospital. After being donated to the Madison Historical Society in 1997, Hermione was moved to its current site on North Mulberry Street in Tallulah. It was adapted to serve both as offices for the society and as the Hermione Museum, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Among its exhibits

770-409: Is known as the seat of its county. Generally, the county legislature, county courthouse, sheriff's department headquarters, hall of records, jail and correctional facility are located in the county seat, though some functions (such as highway maintenance, which usually requires a large garage for vehicles, along with asphalt and salt storage facilities) may also be located or conducted in other parts of

825-598: Is one about Madam C. J. Walker , the first African-American woman to become a self-made businesswoman and millionaire. Born free soon after the war as Sarah Breedlove in nearby Delta, Louisiana , she moved north as a young woman, where she developed a line of hair-care products that she manufactured and sold nationally. The museum is on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail . On April 24, 2010, an EF4 tornado touched down just outside Tallulah, causing numerous injuries. The tornado damaged

880-481: Is still in Tallulah, located along what is now U.S. Route 80 . It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). As of late 2013, it had been restored to its original architectural character and was adapted as an apartment complex. Later in 1927, the downtown was flooded during the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 . Many downtown stores were flooded by several feet of water. It took time for

935-726: Is used in place of county seat. County seats in China are the administrative centers of the counties in the People's Republic of China . Xian have existed since the Warring States period and were set up nationwide by the Qin dynasty . The number of counties in China proper gradually increased from dynasty to dynasty. As Qin Shi Huang reorganized the counties after his unification, there were about 1,000. Under

990-552: The Republic of China took over. There are 13 county seats in Taiwan, which function as county-administered cities , urban townships , or rural townships . In most of the United States , a county is an administrative or political subdivision of a state that consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority. The city, town, or populated place that houses county government

1045-567: The Chicago Mill and Lumber dominating local industry from its site on the west side of the city. After declines from the 1970s, the mill closed in 1983, adding to local economic problems. Unlike some other areas of the state, only four antebellum structures remain in the parish, because of destruction by General Ulysses S. Grant 's forces during the Vicksburg Campaign in the Civil War. One

1100-508: The Eastern Han dynasty , the number of counties increased to above 1,000. About 1400 existed when the Sui dynasty abolished the commandery level (郡 jùn), which was the level just above counties, and demoted some commanderies to counties. In Imperial China, the county was a significant administrative unit because it marked the lowest level of the imperial bureaucratic structure; in other words, it

1155-734: The Madison Parish Correctional Center, with 334 inmates. These are also operated by LaSalle Corrections. Tallulah is in east-central Madison Parish in northeastern Louisiana. It is in the valley of the Mississippi River , 7 miles (11 km) southwest of the river itself. It is bordered to the south by the village of Richmond . U.S. Routes 65 and U.S. Route 80 cross in the center of Tallulah. US 65 leads north 28 miles (45 km) to Lake Providence and south 26 miles (42 km) to Newellton , while US 80 leads west 19 miles (31 km) to Delhi and east 22 miles (35 km) to Vicksburg, Mississippi . Interstate 20 crosses

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1210-526: The Republican Party. They were systematically disenfranchised and nearly excluded from the political system until after passage of civil rights legislation in the mid-20th century. Under these conditions, Andrew Leonard Sevier Sr. was repeatedly re-elected as a Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate , serving from 1932 until his death in 1962. His widow, the former Irene Newman Jordan,

1265-480: The Sicilians because of economic competition. They had also been criticized for failing to comply with Jim Crow rules: if they had black customers waiting, they made new white customers wait their turn rather than giving the whites preference, as was the custom. On July 20, 1899, a mob of white residents of Tallulah lynched the five Sicilians from Cefalù . Two other Italians who lived in nearby Milliken's Bend fled

1320-565: The Tallulah Airport as this process was developed, and fields on both sides of the Mississippi were treated. Delta Air Lines had its origins from Delta Dusters, the company developed here to produce and operate crop dusting from airplanes. Shirley Field and the original airport building still stand near Tallulah, and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). The parish seat also attracted Jewish immigrants . Based on

1375-879: The United States, followed by Towson , the county seat of Baltimore County, Maryland . Likewise, some county seats may not be incorporated in their own right, but are located within incorporated municipalities. For example, Cape May Court House, New Jersey , though unincorporated, is a section of Middle Township , an incorporated municipality. In some states, often those that were among the original Thirteen Colonies , county seats include or formerly included "Court House" as part of their name, such as Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia . Most counties have only one county seat. However, some counties in Alabama , Arkansas , Georgia , Iowa , Kentucky , Massachusetts , Mississippi , Missouri , New Hampshire , New York , and Vermont have two or more county seats, usually located on opposite sides of

1430-401: The area for their safety. The Italians were still citizens (nationals) of Italy, and their government protested strongly to the United States government about each lynching murder. The US government said that the states had to prosecute such killings. As was typical in this period of frequent lynchings of black US citizens, none of the white lynch mob was prosecuted. The city developed through

1485-609: The century, the fair was phased out. Shirley Field , also known as Scott Field, was reportedly the first airport in Louisiana; it was built in 1922 near Tallulah. Dr. B.R. Coad, head of the Agricultural Experiment Laboratory, developed a process and equipment for crop dusting from airplanes, in order to combat the devastating boll weevil infestation of cotton crops. The USDA bought a Huff-Daland plane for this purpose in 1924. Hundreds of flights took off from

1540-406: The city. Madison Parish School Board operates public schools. Parish seat In Canada , the provinces of Ontario , Quebec , New Brunswick , Prince Edward Island , and Nova Scotia have counties as an administrative division of government below the provincial level, and thus county seats. In the provinces of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia the term "shire town"

1595-418: The county, especially if it is geographically large. A county seat is usually an incorporated municipality . The exceptions include the county seats of counties that have no incorporated municipalities within their borders, such as Arlington County, Virginia , where the county seat is the entire county. Ellicott City , the county seat of Howard County, Maryland , is the largest unincorporated county seat in

1650-420: The county. Examples include Harrison County, Mississippi , which has both Biloxi and Gulfport as county seats, and Hinds County, Mississippi , which has both Raymond and the state capital of Jackson . The practice of multiple county seat towns dates from the days when travel was difficult. There have been few efforts to eliminate the two-seat arrangement, since a county seat is a source of civic pride for

1705-513: The early 20th century and had a growing population, as people came in from rural areas to work in the lumber mills and timber processing. Because it was the center of a major agricultural area, Tallulah became the site of the Louisiana Delta Fair, held annually in October through the first half of the 20th century. It featured exhibits from Madison, East Carroll , and Tensas parishes. Later in

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1760-489: The facility, and the jobs there were low paying. In addition to problems within the facility, the prison seemed to have an adverse effect on the city. In 1999, the state took over operating the facility, renaming it the Swanson Correctional Center for Youth/Madison Parish Unit, but there continued to be problems with the treatment of youth. A coalition of townspeople began to work on ideas for different uses for

1815-611: The independent city under an agreement, such as in Albemarle , or may in be enclaves of the county surrounded by the independent city, such as in Fairfax . Others, such as Prince William , have the courthouse in an enclave surrounded by the independent city and have the county government, the Board of Supervisors, in a different part of the county, far from the county seat. The following counties have their county seat in an independent city: Bedford

1870-555: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tallulah&oldid=1209338486 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists English feminine given names Feminine given names Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Tallulah, Louisiana Tallulah ( / t ə ˈ l uː l ə / tə- LOO -lə )

1925-551: The land. The state decided to close the facility, and the coalition proposed an educational center instead. They gained legislative approval in one year, so when the juvenile prison was closed in 2004, there were plans developed for an educational center on the site. A bill for the Northeast Delta Learning Center was signed by Governor Kathleen Blanco in July 2004. Issues remaining were getting funding for it and offsetting

1980-522: The main plaintiff in Morgan v. Hennigan Tallulah Morton (born 1991), Australian fashion model Talulah Riley (born 1985), British actress Tallulah Willis (born 1994), daughter of American actors Demi Moore and Bruce Willis Fictional characters [ edit ] Cousin Tallulah, from Disney's Meet the Robinsons Tallulah, a singer in the musical film Bugsy Malone Tallulah,

2035-612: The national Civil Rights Act in 1964, in 1965, activists conducted boycotts to end discrimination in employment; many stores would not hire blacks as workers. Seventeen businesses closed in the city rather than hire blacks. That year, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act , authorizing the federal government to oversee voter registration and elections in jurisdictions such as Tallulah and Madison Parish with historic under-representation of minorities. The proportion of African-American voting began to increase. In 1969, Zelma Wyche ,

2090-410: The north or south of the state, respectively. The immigrants were primarily from Sicily . Starting as farm workers, some banded together to establish small stores, such as groceries in parish seats and other trading towns. By 1899, five Sicilians were doing a good business in Tallulah, with four small stores devoted to fruit, vegetables and poultry. All but one of the men were relatives. Whites attacked

2145-494: The number of counties also grew by time. By the end of Qing era, there were 11 counties in Taiwan. Protestant missionaries in China first romanized the term as hien . When Taiwan became a Japanese colony in 1895, the hierarchy of divisions also incorporated into the Japanese system in the period when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. By September 1945, Taiwan was divided into 8 prefectures ( 州 and 廳 ), which remained after

2200-505: The office of tax assessor for more than four decades. Mason Spencer , husband of Rosa Sevier Spencer, represented Madison Parish in the Louisiana House from 1924 to 1936. He planned to run for governor of Louisiana in 1935 but withdrew his candidacy after the assassination of former governor Huey Pierce Long Jr. ; Richard Leche of New Orleans , of the Long faction, won the office. Among

2255-540: The parish tax assessor from 1891 to 1916. Except for the years 1887–90, there has been at least one member of the Sevier family in public office for the 122 years preceding 2005. The family's power was maintained primarily in the decades-long period when Democratic Party whites dominated voting, and Louisiana was virtually a one-party state. From its passage of a new constitution in 1898, the state legislature worked to disenfranchise African Americans, who were then mostly members of

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2310-618: The political leaders from this family were William Putnam "Buck" Sevier Jr., a banker. He first served three terms as an elected town alderman in Tallulah. He was elected as mayor of the city in 1946 and served for nearly 30 years, from 1947 to 1974. His tenure included some of the volatile years of the civil rights movement, when African Americans sought changes to the Jim Crow system and justice as citizens. Sevier led white residents in adapting to change as more African-American citizens began to register, vote and be elected to local offices. Sevier at

2365-569: The prominent Sevier family, who were longtime planters. They are descended from John Sevier , a veteran of the American Revolution , and his wife. Later they were pioneers in what is now Tennessee, and Sevier was elected as the first governor of Tennessee . He was the namesake for the city of Sevierville, Tennessee . George Washington Sevier Sr. (1858–1925) was elected as a member of the Madison Parish Police Jury. He served as

2420-516: The southernmost part of Tallulah, with access from Exit 171 (US 65). I-20 leads east to Vicksburg and west 56 miles (90 km) to Monroe . According to the United States Census Bureau , Tallulah has a total area of 2.78 square miles (7.2 km ), all of it recorded as land. Brushy Bayou passes through the center of town. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 6,286 people, 2,561 households, and 1,528 families residing in

2475-764: The state's area, has no borough government or borough seat. One borough, the Lake and Peninsula Borough , has its borough seat located in another borough, namely King Salmon in Bristol Bay Borough . In Louisiana , which is divided into parishes rather than counties, county seats are referred to as "parish seats". In New England , counties have served mainly as dividing lines for the states' judicial systems. Rhode Island has no county level of government and thus no county seats, and Massachusetts has dissolved many but not all of its county governments. In Vermont , Massachusetts , and Maine county government consists only of

2530-399: The success of their drugstore, in 1927 merchant brothers Mertie M. and Abe Bloom built the first enclosed shopping mall , Bloom's Arcade, in the United States in Tallulah. It was built by A. Hays Town in the style of European city arcades . The building had a central hall, with stores located on either side, much like the ones today. The hall opened into the street on both ends. This landmark

2585-601: The surrounding parish is 60 percent black. Mechanization and industrial agriculture have reduced the number of jobs, and many residents have moved since the mid-20th century to larger cities with more opportunities. Tallulah is the principal city of the Tallulah Micropolitan Statistical Area , which includes all of Madison Parish. The Madison Parish Sheriff's office operates the Steve Hoyle Rehabilitation Center in Tallulah. This area

2640-406: The time of his death held the record, at more than forty-four years, as the longest-serving publicly elected official in Louisiana. In November 1994, the state opened the privately operated Tallulah Correctional Center for Youth on the western edge of the city. Residents hoped it would provide jobs for local people and aid the local economy, but there were soon problems associated with management of

2695-688: The town to recover. After serving in World War II, African-American veterans began to challenge racial discrimination in the South more vigorously. After the Supreme Court ruled in Smith v. Allwright (1944) that the white primary of the Democratic Party was unconstitutional, more blacks began to register in the South. However, in Louisiana, the number of white qualified voters in 1947 still surpassed blacks by

2750-416: The towns involved, along with providing employment opportunities. There are 33 counties with multiple county seats in 11 states: Alaska is divided into boroughs rather than counties; the county seat in these case is referred to as the "borough seat"; this includes six consolidated city-borough governments (one of which is styled as a "municipality"). The Unorganized Borough, Alaska , which covers 49% of

2805-538: The use of county seats in particular, will fully transition with the permission of the United States Census Bureau to a system of councils of government for the purposes of boundary definition and as county equivalents. Two counties in South Dakota , Oglala Lakota and Todd , have their county seat and government services centered in a neighboring county. Their county-level services are provided by Fall River County and Tripp County , respectively. In Virginia ,

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2860-521: Was appointed to serve the rest of his term. Andrew Jackson Sevier Jr. served as sheriff of Madison Parish from 1904 until his death in office in 1941. He was succeeded for the rest of his term by his widow, Mary Louise Day Sevier. A cousin of the Seviers, Henry Clay Sevier , was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1936 to 1952. James D. Sevier Sr. and his son, also named James, held

2915-713: Was developed in the antebellum years by European Americans for cotton plantations. They brought in thousands of enslaved African Americans to produce and process the crops. Major planters grew wealthy from their labor at a time when the market for cotton was strong. After the American Civil War , many freedmen from the plantations stayed in the parish, often working as sharecroppers . In the late 19th century, Italian immigrants settled in Louisiana, most in New Orleans but some in outlying parishes such as Madison. Some served as migrant workers on cotton or sugar cane plantations, in

2970-412: Was elected as mayor of Tallulah, the first African American to hold the office. He is believed to have been the first black mayor elected in Louisiana since Reconstruction. The city had its peak of population in 1980. The mechanization of agriculture and the decline of some former industries have reduced the number of local jobs, with population following. It used to be considered a lumber mill town, with

3025-574: Was the lowest level that the government reached. Government below the county level was often undertaken through informal non-bureaucratic means, varying between dynasties. The head of a county was the magistrate , who oversaw both the day-to-day operations of the county as well as civil and criminal cases. The current number of counties mostly resembled that of the later years of the Qing dynasty . Changes of location and names of counties in Chinese history have been

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