If Hurricane Katrina causing the levees to break in New Orleans is the only thing you know about Louisiana , here are a few more interesting facts about the Bayou State: * Louisiana has the tallest state capitol building in the nation at 450 feet.
* The Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans was the largest enclosed stadium in the world when it was built and for two decades thereafter.
* The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway is the longest overwater bridge in the world at 23.87 miles.
* Louisiana ‘s 6.5 million acres of wetlands are the greatest wetland area in America.
* The oldest city in the Louisiana Purchase Territory is Natchitoches, Louisiana founded in 1714.
* The first bottler of Coca-Cola, Joseph Biedenharn, lived in Monroe, Louisiana (he first bottled Coke across the river in Vicksburg, MS), and was eventually one of the founders of Delta Air Lines, initially called Delta Air Service.