Author: Lora Diane Peppers
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A Detailed Description of the Old Fenner Road
The following five pages were found in the files of Dr. E. Russ Williams. It is a wonderful history that Courtland Frantom Landreaux and her father John Robert Frantom wrote…
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Monroe Hook and Ladder Company, No. 1
The driver is identified as John Rigsby, who was also Captain of the Company and Ed Johnson is in the white shirt next to the driver. No one else is…
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The North Side Service Station
This once stood at the corner of 3rd and Louisville around WWII. When I zoomed in on the sign in the window, it gave me the name of the gas…
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An Early Ouachita Parish Graduating Class
Oh this one is super frustrating. A label on the photo states it was the photo of Maude Rogers, Parish School Graduation. There is where the trail runs cold. I’ve…
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How the Community of Luna Got It's Name.
When you drive south down Highway 557 in Southwest Ouachita Parish, you may see a sign for the unincorporated community of Luna. Have you ever wondered how the community got…
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Jackson Street Trolley Car
Nice little photo of one of the Trolley line cars that once ran up and down Jackson Street, and all over downtown Monroe. The tracks were laid down in 1906…
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A Correction to the Girl in the Iron Coffin Story.
All I can say is, “Mea Culpa”. For twenty years or more, I was convinced that the “Girl in the Iron Coffin” dug up in Lakeshore in the 1950’s was…
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Paving of Jackson Street
This would have been taken in 1922, when Jackson Street was paved all the way to Lee Avenue.
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St. Matthew’s High School
In the mid twentieth century, most Catholics in Monroe sent their children to St. Matthew’s High School. It is the ancestor of St. Frederick’s. The building is no longer there…
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An Early Steam Fire Engine
This is a very interesting photo. The only thing we know about it is it shows an early steam fire engine in Monroe in the nineteenth century. This would have…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 