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==Visitor attractions== Ponchatoula hosts Louisiana's [[Strawberry Festival]] each April and an [[Oktoberfest]] each autumn. The town is noted for its many [[antique]] shops along Pine Street ([[Louisiana Highway 22|LA 22]]), open year-round. Eleven of the [[Ponchatoula Commercial Historic District]] buildings are determined to be historically significant and listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. Ponchatoula is small, but it has a number of attractions including a sign on the outskirts of town with how many miles it lies from [[South Dakota]]'s [[Wall Drug]] store. Across Highway 22 from Hardhide is the Collinswood School Museum, a former one-room schoolhouse which exhibits local artifacts and quilts. Between the school museum and the tracks stands the Strawberry Train, which is a steam engine and single passenger car roped off in such a way that children can safely climb into the engine and the car. The Chamber of Commerce office is located on Highway 22 at the railroad tracks and has information about these and other sights in Ponchatoula and the surrounding area. ===Strawberry Festival=== The first [[Strawberry Festival]] was held in April 1972 on the first block of North 6th Street and was co-sponsored by the Ponchatoula Jaycees and the Ponchatoula Chamber of Commerce. The first festival was small and only had 11 booths. It was a two-day event beginning with a baseball game between [[Southeastern Louisiana University]] and [[Wisconsin State College of Milwaukee|Wisconsin State]]. Today it is the second largest event in the state, after [[New Orleans Mardi Gras|Mardi Gras]]{{Citation needed|date=May 2023}}. During the 1980s the local economy changed to tourism, when farming no longer earned enough to sustain the town. The mayor at the time devised a plan to open antique shops where former businesses had been located. There are still about six of these shops in operation. This gave the town a second nickname, "America's Antique City."
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