Author: Lora Diane Peppers
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Ingleside Plantation Cemetery
Back in the 1980’s, the Joyner family bought a plot of land near the Baptist Children’s Home that had once been part of Ingleside Plantation. While clearing it, they uncovered…
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Riverside Pavilion at the Salt Water Natatorium
This is the second postcard I bought. This, of course, is the Riverside Pavilion at the Salt Water Natatorium. I have written about it’s history before. What caught my eye…
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Playground at the Old City High School
This is a view of the Old Monroe City High School I have never seen before. I just had to buy it when I saw it. I never realized there…
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Coming back tomorrow…
Well, tomorrow I start back to work and I will have access again to all my library’s resources. During my hiatus, I bought two Monroe postcards and my boss has…
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A temporary hiatus.
For the past two years or so, I have made it a goal of mine to post something every day. Every time I begin to run out of ideas, I…
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Trenton Street
The three story building on the left is now the bed and breakfast across from the old Rialto. Neat!
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Civil War Sympathies of Northeast Louisiana
This interesting paper talks about the secession convention and the units that served from the N.E. parishes. It takes the interesting view that Ouachita and Caldwell parishes were opposed to…
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The Ouachita Blues and the Pelican Greys
Here is another great WPA paper about a couple of well-known confederate units out of Ouachita! https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-wpa%3A174
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The History of Benton's Bell Battery
Have you ever wondered how the confederate unit known as Benton’s Bell Battery, got it’s name? My boss continues to digitize our WPA collection and this was a recent upload.…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 