Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Author: Lora Diane Peppers

  • Ouachita Parish Public Library Historical Photos

    I just wanted to take a moment and highlight what my boss has been working on. She has set up a new section on the Louisiana Digital Library to upload…

  • Monroe Fire Department’s First Fire Truck

    I love this one! If I had to guess, this was Monroe’s first gas fire truck! At least, the vehicle is very old, so it is one of the first.…

  • The Pet Deer of Holiday Inn

    Did you know that an area hotel in Monroe advertised the attraction of having pet deer romping around that you could play with? Yep! They even put them on their…

  • Another Lovers Lane Postcard

    There seems to be at least a half dozen photo postcards of Lovers Lane! Those power lines are so low in this photo! I wonder if they are for the…

  • Bayou DeSiard Country Club

    I have been on a collecting binge here lately on Ebay! This is a real color postcard of the Bayou DeSiard Country Club which still sits across the bayou from…

  • Census Help for the 1940 and 1950 Censuses.

    In 2022, the 1950 census will be released. It will be several months before all the names will be indexed by the big databases. When the 1940 census was released…

  • Smoot Field

    https://cdm16631.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/charm/id/13509 This photo was found in the collection of Mississippi State University. It was taken in August, 1926. Another photo showing a group of men posed around one of the…

  • Rare letters from a Former Monroe Mayor to his Brother.

    This letter comes from the collection of the Tennessee State Library. It is a two page letter from Arthur Hambleton Harris to his brother George Carroll Harris in Nashville. The…

  • Swansea Campbell Among the Apple Blossoms.

    These come from the collection of the Indiana State University. http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/images/item.htm?id=http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/lilly/hohenberger/Hoh004.022.0050 http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/images/item.htm?id=http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/lilly/hohenberger/Hoh004.022.0049 http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/images/item.htm?id=http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/lilly/hohenberger/Hoh004.022.0048 They show Miss Swansea Campbell posing under a blooming apple tree. they were taken May 1, 1932.…

  • Reverend G.W. Longwood

    This one comes from the collection of the New York Public Library. They also have the Monroe Broadcast newspaper from the mid 1930’s I would love to get my hands…