ALEXANDRIA

a city of Louisiana, the county seat of Rapides Parish, situated on the Red river about 192 miles northwest of New Orleans. It is a railroad center served by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the Louisiana and Arkansas, the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern, and other lines. It produces cotton manufactures and cottonseed oil, and has sugar refineries and lumber yards. In its vicinity is an extensive agricultural region growing corn, rice, fruit and vegetables. The city’s noteworthy structures include a conspicuous Federal building, a public library, the Elks’ Home, and an opera house. Its growth, relative to size, has been marked in recent years. Pop.; 1920. 17,510.