Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Author: Lora Diane Peppers

  • The Red Knights: An Unknown Confederate Unit

    While browsing along the other day, I stumbled across this little document found in the Boston Anthenaum. It has no date on it, but it clearly was printed during the…

  • Kate Willis Carroll

    Did you know that in the collection of Southern University’s Archives, they have a picture of Morris Henry Carroll’s mother? I didn’t either! You can see it here: http://7008.sydneyplus.com/final/Portal/SouthernUniversity.aspx?lang=en-US .…

  • Tulip Time at the Bagwells Gardens in West Monroe

    Here is a postcard I had never seen before! This apparently was a garden center called Bagwells Gardens, located at 1307 Parnell Street in West Monroe in the 50’s and…

  • The First Car in Monroe…Owned by a Woman?

    I may have just found out who had the first car in Monroe! It may have happened all the way back in 1901! This little society article appeared in the…

  • The Pow Wow Online

    How many of you former NLU/ULM students remember the student newspaper called the Pow Wow? Did you ever want to go back and read some of the articles? Maybe you…

  • Stevie Wonder Comes to the Civic Center

    Did you know that the great Stevie Wonder came to the Monroe Civic Center in 1970? Yep! Among the hits he sang that night were : “Yester-You, Yester-New, Yester-Day”, “My…

  • Latest News on the Library

    Just a little update and some juicy info I found! We hope the library computers and phones will be up next week sometime, but nothing is definite. What is definite,…

  • A Minor Scandal in the Jewish Community

    Hi all! Just a minor update. The library was hit by a malware attack. No ransomware, but it destroyed our computer system, This includes our phones since they are tied…

  • An Update…

    Just wanted to let everyone know why I haven’t posted for almost a week. Thursday, the Ouachita Parish Public Library suffered a catastrophic network failure. All internet access was lost,…

  • Ike Hamilton: Rodeo Clown

    This clipping is from a Florence, AL paper in 1936. Before he became a famous auctioneer, Mr. Hamilton was a famous rodeo clown. He also had a trick mule named…