Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Author: Lora Diane Peppers

  • Floor Plan of the Original Carver Library

    The State Library has posted on the Digital Library, an image of the original Carver Branch Library floor plan here: https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lhp%3A1166 . This is the Selman Field building, originally brought…

  • St. Matthew Catholic Church

    This is a rare postcard from the turn of the last century, that shows St. Matthew Catholic Church from the front without it’s steeple. Just on the left edge of…

  • A Fascinating Scrapbook For Our Collection

    Last week, a scrapbook full of pristine candid photos was given to the library. It was about to be thrown into the garbage when it was rescued. What it contained…

  • A Yankee Buried by Confederate Veterans

    One of the sweetest stories I have found, concerns the burial of a Union veteran handled by the Henry W. Allen Camp of United Confederate Veterans.             Fifteen or so…

  • Carolyn Rose Strauss

    Many of you have heard of the Carolyn Rose Strauss Senior Center, the Carolyn Rose Strauss Rehabilitation Center and of the Strauss Little Theater, but do you know the little…

  • Kern’s Kiddie Land

    My generation had Howard Griffin Land O’ Toys, but previous generations remember Kern’s Kiddie Land. My boss has found a transcript of an interview with Joseph Kern, owner and founder…

  • Did you know…

    In honor of what would have been parade day in Monroe/West Monroe, I found this little tidbit. I forgot to mention it in yesterday’s presentation. The year after Monroe’s first…

  • Northeast Louisiana State College Postcard

    I had never seen this postcard before! These buildings are all still there.

  • History of Mardi Gras in Monroe program tomorrow!

    Just a heads-up! Tomorrow morning at 10:30 on the Ouachita Parish Facebook page, I will be going live to talk about the history of Mardi Gras in Monroe! I’ll touch…

  • The Founders of the Young Catholics’ Friends’ Society of Monroe, Louisiana – 1870

    Here is another little gem I found, in the collection of Villanova University in PA. It is the “Articles of Incorporation, Constitution and By-Laws of the Young Catholics’ Friends’ Society…