Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Author: Lora Diane Peppers

  • ULM Photo Archives

    One of the ULM Library’s projects is the digitization of their photos in their collection. As they are done, they are available at this website: https://repository.ulm.edu/apc/ There are photos from…

  • The Death Certificate of Robert Harris Sterling

    Last Tuesday I told you about finding the papers of Charles Boliver Sterling in California. He was the son of R.H. Sterling, who shot Ferdinand Morgan in the back during…

  • Ouachita Parish High School Graduating Classes

    We still continue to go through and find treasures in our collection. Two Ouachita Parish High School documents from the 1920’s are of particular interest. The first is a 1921…

  • A New Treasure to Pour Over!

    I found about a month ago, a collection in the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA that uncovered an entire lost history of the people who lived around Sterlington in…

  • The Tragic Death of George Purvis and his Children

    George Purvis was a native of England but settled in the Ouachita Parish area before the Civil War. He married Carolyn K. Morrison (from a very old Ouachita Parish family)…

  • Buick Goes Around the World

    Back in 1924, Buick decided to take one of it’s cars on an around the world trip to prove that they are good cars and can take all driving conditions.…

  • The Monroe Elks Baseball Team – 1920

    I found the above photo in a 1950 newspaper article. After doing a little research, I found that back in 1920, Mr. Haas was the coach of the Monroe Elks…

  • 1904 Ouachita Parish High School Catalogue

    Here is a treasure! A new document just digitized for our collection is almost 120 years old! It is a rare Ouachita Parish high School handbook published in 1904. In…

  • Willie’s Birth Certificate?

    Last week, a hint popped up on my Ancestry tree I have created for Sidney and Annie Saunders’ son Willie. It stated there was a birth record in New Orleans…

  • West Monroe Salutes Industry

    How about this little pamphlet listing some of the industries in West Monroe in the 1950’s? Here you will find information and photos of Bancroft Bag, the Union Oil Mill…