Author: Lora Diane Peppers
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St. John Street Looking North
From the look of the cars, the above photo would have been taken in the 20’s. On the west side of the street we can see the old City Hall,…
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A Legend of Indian Village : The Story of White Faun and Paul Harcourt
Written for Louisiana Road Trips Magazine May, 2010: I found this article a few years ago in The Monroe Bulletin, Wednesday, December 15, 1886. No proof has been found for…
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The Legend of the Pargoud Indian Mound
Written for Louisiana Road Trips Magazine, November, 2010. Down Island Drive, where Bayou DeSiard meets the Ouachita River, is a small Indian mound. It is four hundred feet…
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The Overflow of 1874
*Written for Louisiana Road Trips Magazine in 2009: No one can deny that Northeast Louisiana (and many other places in the state) has had way too much rain here…
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Ouachita Parish World War I Veterans
Many years ago, the Special Collections department at the Ouachita Parish Public Library was given a compilation of all known WWI veterans from Ouachita Parish. I compiled an index to…
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Endom Bridge at the Turn of the Century
Great little postcard, probably taken around 1910 or so. No cars, just horses and buggies!
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The First Jewish Temple in Monroe
This building was built by Congregation Manassas as the first Jewish Temple in Monroe. It was located on Jackson Street. In 1914 it was torn down and a new Temple…
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Mary McCranie
To me, the obituary for a little ten month old baby girl is the most moving tribute I have ever read. When I first read it, I had to get…
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The Bloody End of Andrew Young Morhouse
Colonel Abraham Morhouse was an adventurer and land speculator. His travels led him to the Baron de Bastrop. The Baron was eager to sell his land in Louisiana and Morhouse…
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He Died a Hero: The Life and Death of Father Louis Gergaud
This was written for Louisiana Road Trips Magazine in 2008: A call went out in France. Priests were needed in Louisiana. Louisiana was still mostly a frontier in the 1850’s,…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 