Author: Lora Diane Peppers
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Felix McCloe: First Black Justice of the Peace in Ouachita Parish
I stumbled across this little tidbit of lost Ouachita Parish history earlier this month. On the front page of the News-Star, April 8, 1921, Was the headline, “FORMER SLAVE, OFFICE…
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1915 Monroe City Council
I found this photo on the 2nd floor of the Monroe City Hall. Sorry for the glass glare.
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The First Horse Racing Track in Monroe?
I just love these little tidbits of history I find from time to time! I try to share them as I find them, so that future researchers can know about…
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1904 Coca Cola ad
Shreveport Times, June 1, 1904, page 3. This is a bit confusing. Joseph Biedenharn didn’t get to Monroe until the early teens. Before then, he had been bottling Coke in…
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Noesgay: The Noe Family Home
I knew Governor and Mrs. James A. Noe owned Whitehall Plantation, but I didn’t know they had a seperate home in Monroe! At the estate sale I told you about…
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Ouachita Parish Confederate Pensioners in 1918
A couple of weeks ago, I went to an estate sale. Digging through the books for sale, I found this little booklet called “State of Louisiana, Board of Pension Commissioners…
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Early History of Baseball in Monroe
You can see I have updated the look and layout of the blog! I think it is easier to read and I hope you like it! This was published in…
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Unmarked Slave Burial Ground in Sterlington
This one I stumbled upon Wednesday. I have told you about the Phillips family cemetery in Sterlington on 165 North. It is the one marked with a stone cross, just…
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Resolutions of Respect for the Ouachita Parish Steamboat Buckeye Victims
If you have been following my blog a while, you know several years ago I posted a transcription of Narcissa Grayson Garrett’s experience aboard the steamboat Buckeye when it sank…
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Gertrude Allen Ammons – Pioneer Educator
I decided to end my Black History Month posts with a connection to one of my first posts this month. In that post, I told you about Ben Allen, who…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 