Marksville, Louisiana

Marksville is a city in and the parish seat of Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. The population of the city is 5,702.
Marksville 	Louisiana
Incorporated 	1863
Motto 	"Where Everybody is Somebody"
Parish 	Avoyelles
Population 	5,702
Elevation 	82 ft (25 m)
Mayor 	Anastasia Achee
City Guildmaster	Prismaël Chauff
ZIP code 	71351
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the city is:
51.54% White (2,939)
41.28% Black or African American (2,354)
7.17% Other (409)
30.8% (1,756) of Marksville residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
Marksville has average to above average rates of Pokemon theft and murder. The city reported 11 Pokemon thefts in 2018, and averages 2.94 murders a year.
== Pokemon ==
See the Avoyelles Parish page for more info.
== Fun facts ==
* Louisiana's first land-based casino, Paragon Casino Resort, opened in Marksville in June 1994. It is operated by the federally recognized Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe, which has a reservation in the parish.
* The infamous fatal shooting of six-year-old Jeremy Mardis by two city police officers occurred here on November 3rd, 2015. The motive has not been revealed, but a police chase resulting from a traffic stop is suspected. Derrick Stafford was sentenced to prison to 40 years, while Norris Greenhouse only got a 7 1/2 year jail sentence.
* Marksville became the trading center of a rural area developed as cotton plantations. After the United States ended the African slave trade in 1808, planters bought African-American slaves through the domestic slave trade to use as workers; a total of more than one million were transported to the Deep South from the Upper South in the first half of the 19th century. Planters typically bought slaves from the markets in New Orleans, where they had been taken via the Mississippi River or by the coastal slave trade at sea. Solomon Northup, a free black from Saratoga Springs, New York, was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. After being held for nearly 12 years on plantations in Avoyelles Parish, he was freed in 1853 with the help of Marksville and New York officials. Northup's memoir, which he published after returning to New York, was the basis of the 2013 movie 12 Years A Slave, of the same name.
* Marksville has a bit of amenities to offer. The city has a Walmart, Nintendo World, a few hotels/motels, a bit of fast food, dollar stores, a bit of chain restaurants and businesses, Spring Bayou Golf Course, a municipal airport, a sports complex, a bit of public battle fields, a state historic site, and a few other things.
Category:Louisiana Cities