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Alexandria, Louisiana

Alexandria is a city in and the parish seat of Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 It lies on the south bank of the Red River in almost the exact geographic center of the state. It is the principal city of the Alexandria metropolitan area (population 153,922) which encompasses all of Rapides and Grant parishes. Its neighboring city is Pineville. In 2010, the population was 47,723, an increase of 3 percent from the 2000 census.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2010 Census )
== History ==
Located along the Red River, the city of Alexandria was originally home to a community which supported activities of the adjacent Spanish outpost of Post du Rapides. The area developed as an assemblage of traders and merchants in the agricultural lands bordering the mostly unsettled areas to the north and providing a link from the south to the El Camino Real and then larger settlement of Natchitoches, the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase.
Alexander Fulton, a businessman from Washington County, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, received a land grant from Spain in 1785, and the first organized settlement was made at some point in the 1790s. In 1805, Fulton and business partner Thomas Harris Maddox laid out the town plan and named the town in Fulton's honor. The earliest deed that survives, for an Alexandria resident is from June 24, 1805 when a William Cochren who identifies himself as a "of the Town of Alexandria" sold a tract of land across the Red River to a William Murrey.(State Land Office, Historical Records, Sales Documents, South Western District, Sales Letters, 39 ).
That same year Fulton was appointed coroner in Rapides Parish by territorial Governor William C.C. Claiborne.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Fulton, Alexander )〕 Alexandria was incorporated as a town in 1819 and received a city charter in 1832.〔(Community ) 〕

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