Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Author: Lora Diane Peppers

  • Industrial Ouachita

    This next one, I’ll let my boss’ description of it speak: “Draft notes of a tour of industrial plants in Ouachita Parish including Southern Carbon, Columbian Carbon, Monroe Packing, Union…

  • Ouachita and Monroe History

    I like this WPA document! I can’t vouch for the veracity of some of the information the WPA collected, but most of it is correct. It is a fairly large…

  • Louisiana Training Institute (LTI)

    Here is a nice little history of LTI: https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-wpa%3A8

  • Layton Home (Layton Castle)

    This next document concerns the “Layton Home”, aka Mulberry Grove, aka Layton Castle. https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-wpa%3A7

  • John B. Filhiol Home (Logtown Plantation)

    This next WPA document is about Logtown Plantation, referred to here as the John B. Filhiol Home (he owned it at the time.) https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-wpa%3A5 .

  • Ingleside Plantation

    This next document concerns the old Ingleside Plantation home, which still stands near the Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home. https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-wpa%3A3

  • The James A. Noe Fish Hatchery

    A month or two ago, I told you that my boss was working on getting some of our photos and documents published online at the Louisiana Digital Library site. The…

  • G.B. Cooley Tuberculosis Sanitarium Under Construction

    https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/state-lwp%3A2043 This is an old WPA photograph showing the TB hospital under construction in 1936. It was located out on Whites Ferry Road. The State Library has most of the…

  • A Lost Colonial Graveyard

    If you go here: https://books.google.com/books?id=0nZFAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA498&ots=kNyDOAxGFS&dq=%22Hypolite%20Pargoud%22&pg=PA497#v=onepage&q=%22Hypolite%20Pargoud%22&f=false, you will read about Hypolite Pargoud’s fight with the Parish over a plot of land that had once been a cemetery. Back in colonial days…

  • Meet the 1915 Monroe City Council