Author: Lora Diane Peppers
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The First DAR Chapter in Ouachita Parish
The News Star, November 14, 1913, Page 2 D.A.D.’s [sic] Organized. On Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Graham Surghnor, the organizer, a chapter of the Daughters of the…
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St. Mary’s Female Academy
I just happened to stumble across this ad in the Ouachita Telegraph of February 1, 1866. I had never heard of St. Mary’s Female Academy and wondered if it was…
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St. Hyacinth and St. Matthew
I won this postcard from eBay and got it in last week. It was sent through the mail in May, 1909. I hope your Memorial Day weekend was relaxing and…
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1932 Murders at a Church
The first inkling of trouble at Zion Traveler’s Church appeared in the Monroe News-Star of February 6, 1931. The Sons and Daughters of Zion society filed suit in the Ouachita…
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Boscobel Plantation
The old Boscobel plantation once stood in Bosco, LA as a gorgeous two story plantation home. Sallie Humble’s parents once lived here and it was here that she was born.…
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The Impressions and Kool and the Gang at Head’s Palladium
This one made me pause a second. I was unfamiliar with The Impressions till I looked up their songs and recognized a lot of them. Plus, they are in the…
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Gifts For Grads Ad, 1925.
Since it is graduation season, I decided to share this 1925 ad from the City Drug Co. Inc. dated from May, 1925. The City Drug store was at 205 Trenton…
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Thurgood Marshall and Mary McCleod Bethune visit Monroe
I’ve been thumbing through the book “The Monroeians” by Dr. James O. McHenry, when I was reading the section which interviewed Mrs. Clara Lee Jefferson Willis-Andrews, a retired educator. On…
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Ouachita’s reaction to becoming part of the US
This just cracks me up, since it reaffirms in the last sentence, what Filhiol told Gov. Miro when he arrived on the Ouachita. I have used modern spelling for clarity.…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 