Author: Lora Diane Peppers
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A List of Ouachita Parish High School Alumni Who Fell During War
Back in May, 1945 Ouachita Parish High School’s seniors had a newsletter called the Ouachita Lion. It served as a sort of yearbook since the yearbook wasn’t publishing during WWII.…
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Welcome to Monroe brochure
Here is a fairly new brochure (historically speaking) we just had to digitize due to it’s uniqueness! It was a guide to African-American owned businesses in Monroe produced in the…
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An Unexpected Breakthrough in the Saga of Sidney and Annie Saunders
I honestly don’t know what to think about what I just read. This is going to take some digesting. I have been chasing rabbits (as I like to say) and…
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Map of the Small Communities of Ouachita Parish
Wednesday, my boss found a map of Ouachita Parish pasted in the front cover of one of our Peters Funeral Home Records books. It appears to be hand drawn and…
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31 Nights of Halloween (2021 Edition/Night #1): A Jonestown Victim’s Grave is Identified
Originally posted on For The Love of History: November 18, 1978 is one horrifying date in world history. It will forever be marred by the remembrance of Jim Jones and…
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HISTORIC HASLEY: Secrets From The Grave
Last year, the Ouachita Parish Public Library’s Genealogy and Special Collections Department applied for and won a Rebirth Public Library grant* from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Our project was to create…
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Welcome to Monroe Packet.
If you moved to Monroe around 1961, you would probably be given a little welcome to the town magazine, compiled by the Letter Service Bureau. It was filled with letters…
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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…
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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 .…
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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…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 