Author: Lora Diane Peppers
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Webb Hotel
The old Webb Hotel on Antique Alley was built around 1900. It is now only two stories tall, due to a fire on the third floor! It now serves as…
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West Monroe City Jail
Kinda nasty looking, isn’t it? The story goes that the above photo was taken of the jail that was located in West Monroe’s City Hall on Trenton Street. They made…
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Miss Frances Flanders
The above photo is another one from the collection of the Ouachita Parish Public Library. It shows Library Director Frances Flanders reading Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to a…
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Copley-Keys-Mize Home
The above home was built in the 1830’s by Mr. Copley. It is named for the succession of owners it has seen. It is still standing in West Monroe and…
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Ouachita Parish Public Library
The above photo was taken probably in the 1940’s in front of the former home of Anna Ruth Meyer. She had donated it to the city of Monroe for use…
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West Monroe State Bank/Hatchells Building
The above photo is of the West Monroe State Bank building, which is now known as Hatchell’s Building on Trenton Street in West Monroe. It was built around 1900 by…
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Trenton, LA
This is the only view of Trenton, LA that I have ever seen. It was taken in April, 1874 during a major flood. None of the buildings in this photo…
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History of Sterlington by Hazel Smith Short
Back in 1962, Mrs. Melvin B. Short (Hazel) compiled a history of the area and families that comprise the area we know as Sterlington, in northern Ouachita Parish. It had…
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Thompson Wood “Woodie” Lee
Back in 1996, I had a college B & W photography assignment and I chose cemetery markers as my subject. One of the markers that drew my attention was Woodie…
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Mayor Forsythe Lying in State
The above photo is from the collection of the Ouachita Parish Public Library’s Genealogy and Special Collections Department. It shows the coffin and funeral offerings for Mayor Andrew Alexander Forsythe…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 