Assisted Living in Minden, LA

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Facts about Minden

Minden is also known as: Webster Parish / Minden city.

And some of the notable people born here have been: Bruce M. Bolin (attorneys in the united states and judge), Dave Williams (american football player), and Darryl Moore (american football player).

And featured attractions of Minden: Germantown, Germantown Colony and Museum, Louisiana Missionary Baptist Institute and Seminary, and Louisiana Technical College-Northwest Louisiana Campus.

Minden is represented by Government D - Michael Scott Toland.

Minden is a small city in and the parish seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, United States. is located twenty-eight miles east of Shreveport in Caddo Parish. The population has been relatively stable since 1960, when it was 12,786. It was 13,082 at the 2010 census. The 2000 population had been 13,027; growth over the decade was hence .4 of 1 percent. Minden is 51.7 percent African American.Minden is the principal city of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the larger Shreveport-Bossier City-Minden Combined Statistical Area. It is a regional trade center for the neighboring parishes of Bienville and Claiborne, from which Webster Parish was carved in 1871.Minden has possessed a United States post office since 1839. The current postal building, a 10,000-square-foot structure at 111 South Monroe Street, was completed under a $285,000 contract awarded in 1959 to McInnis Construction Company of Minden.The community has been served by a newspaper since the 1850s. The current publication, the Minden Press-Herald, is located on Gleason Street south of Broadway. The building was formerly used by a grocery store. The Press-Herald became a daily newspaper on July 18, 1966, but was earlier published as two weekly papers, the Minden Press on Mondays and the Minden Herald on Thursdays. For a time there was also the Webster Signal-Tribune and other publications.On October 15, 2012, an ordnance bunker at nearby Camp Minden exploded, but the blast was contained with minimal damage. Camp Minden is the site of the former Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant, once the major area employer. In December 2012, police began the removal of 2,700 tons of explosives from Camp Minden, leading to evacuations in the nearby town of Doyline.In 1959, Minden was named the "Cleanest City in Louisiana."

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