Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Author: Lora Diane Peppers

  • Zion Traveler Church Fellowship, circa 1945

    This photo from our collection is only identified as Zion Traveler Baptist Church. https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-pho%3A35 It shows people seated around tables eating, wearing their Sunday best. From the clothing, it appears…

  • Citizenship Award Winner

    From the library’s Junior Chamber of Commerce collection is this little gem of a photo. https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-pho%3A262 The two men are W. Carroll Royce and C.B. “Bert” Braun. However, you may…

  • A Mealy Photo Mystery.

    In the time around the Civil War, the Larkin Jamar family moved to Richland parish from Alabama. One of them went to Monroe to have E.W. Mealy take his photograph…

  • The Twin Cities Prepare For War

    Imagine the U.S. at war against a country which could send enemy planes to fly over major cities with bombs. That is exactly what the country was facing during WWII.…

  • The U.S. Waterway Dredge Boat

    This dredge boat traveled up and down the Ouachita dredging the river to make it navigable in 1921 when they were building the locks and dams system. This picture shows…

  • Episcopal Church Postcard – Circa 1929

    Grace Episcopal Church has always been a beautiful building in the Garden District (Corner of North 4th and Glenmar). This building is still there although it has been greatly expanded…

  • 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…