Hammond in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana — The American South (West South Central)

Friendship Circle

April 22, 2017

1. Friendship Circle Marker

Inscription. Friendship Circle, designed by Edward Avery McIlhenny, Tabasco entrepreneur and naturalist, serves as the focus of a landscape plan created for the Art Deco buildings that transformed a family farm into a modern college campus between 1939 nd 1941.

A grant from the Federal Emergency Relief Administration for Public Works, part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and administered by Governor Richard W. Leche's administration, provided funding for the project.

The circle takes its name from the stately Friendship Oak, which anchors its east end. The Class of 1956 planted the live oak to the west, grown from a Friendship Oak acorn. A magnolia tree, planted in the 1970s, occupies the center of the circle and commemorates the founders of Phi Mu Fraternity.

Erected by Southeastern Louisiana University.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Architecture • Education • Horticulture & Forestry. In addition, it is included in the Former U.S. Presidents: #32 Franklin D. Roosevelt series list.

Location. 30° 30.729′ N, 90° 28.052′ W.

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Marker is in Hammond, Louisiana, in Tangipahoa Parish. It is on Western Avenue 0.2 miles west of North Oak Street, in the median. Located in Friendship Circle. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Hammond LA 70402, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the Florida Parishes

and in Greater New Orleans.

It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Deep South,

and on the Gulf Coast.

Globally, it is in North America,

a Gulf of Mexico state,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

the Louisiana Purchase,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Site of 1st Classroom Bldg. (within shouting distance of this marker); Grace Memorial Episcopal Church (approx. half a mile away); City Of Hammond (approx. half a mile away); Mt. Vernon Walnut (approx. 0.6 miles away); Hammond Junior College (approx. 0.7 miles

April 22, 2017

2. Friendship Circle Marker

Looking West

away); The Republic of West Florida (approx. 2.4 miles away); PFC Raymond "Mike" Clausen, Jr. (approx. 5.2 miles away); Ponchatoula Depot (approx. 5.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Hammond.

Other markers no longer nearby. Cate Square (was approx. 0.6 miles away but has been confirmed missing); Peter Hammond (was approx. 0.8 miles away but has been confirmed missing).

April 22, 2017

3. Friendship Circle Marker

Back of marker, looking east

April 22, 2017

4. Friendship Circle Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on August 26, 2020. It was originally submitted on April 22, 2017, by Cajun Scrambler of Assumption, Louisiana. This page has been viewed 743 times since then and 32 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on April 22, 2017.