LOUISIANA  , a

city of Pike county, Missouri, U.S.A., situated below the mouth of the Salt river, on the western bank of the Mississippi, about 90 m . N. of St . Louis . Pop . (1900) 5131, including 1075 negroes and 161 foreign-born; (191o) 4454; there is also a considerable suburban population . Louisiana is served by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Chicago & Alton railways, and by several lines of river steamboats . The river is spanned here by a railway bridge . The city is laid out fairly regularly in the river valley and on bluffs along the river, and has attractive residential districts, commanding good views . It has very active and varied industries, and is a trade centre for a large grain- and fruit-producing and stock-raising region, and has one of the largest nurseries in the United States . Louisiana was laid out in 1818, was the county-seat from that date until 1825, was incorporated as a town in 1845 and was chartered as a city in 1849 .