Author: Lora Diane Peppers
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Your Hometown Tycoon Game
About a month ago, this board game came up for sale on eBay. I had never heard of it! Apparently, in 1992, a company did a take off on the…
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Selber Brothers Department Store Groundbreaking – 1967
It was recently announced that the Main Branch of the Ouachita Parish Public Library will be moving next year into a building that was once part of the Twin City…
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Jimmie Rodgers Performs in West Monroe!
April 1st, 1930, the “Father of Country Music” himself, performed in a tent show in West Monroe. I never knew this! Here is what the Ouachita Citizen had to say…
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Part Two of the Thomas Reynolds Murder, 1848
Back in 2019, I found an article about a man on trial for the 1848 poisoning death of his father. He had ran to Texas for several years, but was…
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Sterling Plantation
Take a look at this picture of Sterling Plantation taken in 1941 before the plantation burned November 2, 1944! It was built by John Taylor Sterling in the early 1800s…
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Royal Confectionary Interior
Here is another rare postcard showing the interior of the Royal Confectionary in the 200 block of De Siard Street. Look at that tin ceiling!
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The Ball Park and Race Track at Forsythe Park – 1911
Here is a rare postcard showing the old Baseball field and race track at Forsythe park where the old golf field is now! Very few photos of this section of…
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A Burglar at the Slagle Home
In February, I was researching the history of the Masur Museum building, which was originally owned by the Clarence E. Slagle family. Clarence founded the Slagle lumber company. I suspect…
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January, The Tailor Ad – 1929
How about his ad, also from the 1929 phone book. Mr. Ibra B. January needs no introduction. He was the best tailor Monroe has ever seen and was a pioneer…
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Joe Messina Seafood ad – 1929
From the 1929 telephone directory, I saw this little ad. Joe came to Monroe from Cefalu, Italy in 1906 (according to his obituary). For fifty years he ran a local…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 