Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Author: Lora Diane Peppers

  • 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…

  • Georgia Street Nursing Home

    How about this postcard? I had never heard of this nursing home before, but I found that it opened at 1000 S. Georgia street (later 2700 Georgia Street) in early…

  • Christmas Fiesta Parade Float – 1939

    This first photo shows a float lined up waiting to start the parade. From the angle of the photo, they were parked along Elysian Fields, next to the Old City…

  • A Description of a Monroe Wedding in 1888

    This is just beautifully described! The descendants of the wedding party still live in Monroe and are members of Temple B’Nai today! The American Israelite (Cincinnati, OH) April 27, 1888,…