Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Author: Lora Diane Peppers

  • Monroe Municipal Golf Course Club House

    How about this little gem? This is a rare postcard I won off of a website that sells postcards. I have now become addicted to collecting Monroe postcards! Help!

  • The Importance of Wearing Personal Protection Items

    The Times-Democrat (New Orleans) May 1, 1900, Page 7 NECROLOGICAL.Capt. O.W. Murray, Monroe. Special to The Times-Democrat. Monroe, La., April 30. – Capt. O.W. Murray, an undertaker here, died this…

  • A Priceless Artifact of Monroe Colored High School History

    A couple of weeks ago, while browsing Ebay, I found an autograph book for sale from 1941. Looking at the pictures of the pages, I soon realized it was an…

  • A Panther Upsets a Family Meal

    Ballou’s Pictorial, Boston, MA, January 20, 1855, Page 46, “Editorial Melange.” A panther entered the dining room of a house in Ouachita Parish, La. a short time since, while the…

  • A Lost Methodist Preacher

    I have seemed to come to a dead end in this wild goose chase. I happened to stumble across a book digitized on Archive.org entitled, “Minutes of the Louisiana Conference,…

  • A Steel Bridge at Travelers Rest Stock Farm

    How about this photo of a bridge at Travelers Rest in West Monroe? Wonder which bridge it was?

  • The Salt Water Natatorium right after it was built.

    This next photo is the Salt Water Natatorium from an angle I have never seen before. You can clearly see the Pavilion off to the right. I think in the…

  • Ingleside Plantation Circa 1910

    I found this online in a book published in 1912 by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Immigration called, “A hand-book of Louisiana”. I’ll be posting a couple more photos…

  • The Daily Electric Letter

    What you are looking at is page three of a four page newspaper called the Daily Electric Letter, published at Monroe November 13, 1877. This is the local news section.…

  • Market House Restaurant

    News-Star, December 16, 1911 The Market House Restaurant is conveniently located in the City Market House on DeSiard street and it is under the able and progressive management of the…