Noted Events
Natchitoches received numerous New Orleans evacuees due to Hurricane Katrina. Many college students from New Orleans were transferred to Northwestern State University to continue their education.
Steel Magnolias was filmed here, starring Julia Roberts, Sally Field, Daryl Hannah, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, and Olympia Dukakis, and The Horse Soldiers, starring William Holden and John Wayne.
In 1973, singer-songwriter Jim Croce was killed when his plane crashed as he was leaving the city.
Natchitoches was the site of a gas pipeline explosion in March 1965 that killed 17 people.
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