Author: Lora Diane Peppers
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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,…
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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?
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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Monroe Roads and Ditches Maintained in 1825.
I found the above article in an 1825 Washita Gazette. It basically ordered Monroe citizens owning town lots to maintain the roads and ditches around their lots. Kinda wish they…
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Horse Racing in Monroe
This ad for a local horse race meet, appeared in the Ouachitta Banner in October, 1839. It is not known where this race course was, but the stakes were pretty…
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List of Letters in 1825
Back in the early days of many cities, no one really had individual mailboxes for postal delivery. Your mail was sent to the local post office and it was up…
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The Laura Porter Lynching
I was told about this website called Strange Fruit and Spanish Moss. They have documented lynching incidents from around the country. One of the ones that was documented was the…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 