1.  Did you know Washington has it own song?

 Using the melody from: "Hush, Little Baby, Don't You Cry"

A long time ago, the steamboats came
To haul the logs, the cotton, and the cane.
People had their feet on the ground.
Progress came, the steamboats turned around.

Five years ago, this group was formed:
Historic Washington was born.
It brought the tourist industry,
With old plantation homes to see.

People say, "It's a well known fact
That its beauty always draws you back."
Third oldest town in this great old state.
Sleepy looking, yet we're wide awake.

2.  Did you know that Joseph A. Pitre was the first African-American
     elected as Mayor of the Town of Washington in 2003?

3.  Did you know that the Sazerac cocktail was a favorite of Washington
     in the 1880's?

    The Sazerac Cocktail was the noted drink of the time in 1880’s.
Steamboats would pass on the Bayou Courtableau. They would land at one of the mills in Washington to take on or discharge cargo, and on occasions, members of the sawmill force would go aboard to buy stems of bananas and other luxuries, and more than apt, get a drink or two of “Pikes Magnolia”, or a Sazerac Cocktail” at the steamboat bar. It is said that this drink was invented by Antoine Amadie Peychaud, a Creole apothecary who came from the West Indies in the early 1800s. He dispensed a proprietary mix of aromatic bitters from an old family recipe, to relieve the ails of his clients.
The Original Sazerac Cocktail
Take two heavy-bottomed 3 1/2-oz. Bar glasses; fill one with cracked ice and allow it to chill while placing a lump of sugar with just enough water to moisten it. Crush the saturated lump of sugar with a bar spoon. Add a few drops of Peychaud's Bitters, a jigger of rye whisky and several lumps of ice and stir briskly. Empty the first glass of ice, dash in several drops of Herbsaint, twirl the glass rapidly and shake out the absinthe. Enough of it will cling to the glass to impart the desired flavor. Strain into this glass the rye whisky mixture prepared in the other glass. Twist a lemon peel over the glass, but do not put it in the drink.

4.  Did you know that Washington State Bank is the oldest chartered bank in St. Landry Parish, founded on April 11, 1893 and the second oldest bank in the State of Louisiana?