Friendship Circle

Four-year status came to Southeastern without a budget. Bachelor's degrees were approved in 1937 and the first were awarded in 1939, and Act 388 of 1938 gave the college the same legal standing as other state four-year colleges but no added funding. Federal New Deal relief money, according to the marker, helped pay for the buildings of 1939 to 1941 that the circle's landscape frames. Accreditation followed in 1946, and in 1970 the school became Southeastern Louisiana University.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tickfaw State Park — 13 mi
  A floodplain park on the Tickfaw River, with cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland hardwoods and about 4.75 miles of trails and boardwalks, plus a nature center with an 800-gallon river aquarium.
• Fontainebleau State Park — 29 mi
  Lakeshore park on the Northshore where Tchefuncte potters, Acolapissa and Choctaw lived, and where 153 people were enslaved at Marigny's sugar and brick plantation by 1840; the mill ruin still stands.

More markers nearby

• Site of 1st Classroom Bldg. — steps away
• City Of Hammond — 0.5 mi
• Hammond Junior College — 0.7 mi
• The Republic of West Florida — 2.4 mi