Hammond Junior College

Linus A. Sims, principal of Hammond High School, founded the school in 1925, and the Tangipahoa Parish School Board ran it. It began modestly, offering only a teaching certificate, and the school board paid for it from the parish. Two years later it moved to a larger site in north Hammond, and in 1928 it was renamed Southeastern Louisiana College and entered the state system. Bachelor's degrees came in 1937 and 1939 brought the first graduates, and in 1970 the college became a 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

• City Of Hammond — 0.3 mi
• Friendship Circle — 0.7 mi
• Site of 1st Classroom Bldg. — 0.7 mi
• The Republic of West Florida — 2.8 mi