Author: Lora Diane Peppers
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Ouachita Parish High School Faculty, 1914 – 1915
Solemn bunch aren’t they? This is the faculty that taught at Ouachita Parish High School over 100 years ago! No order of the names was given, but the above people…
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The Ouachita River in 1913
The above photos show the same scene along the Ouachita River a little over a month apart. It shows how wildly river levels fluctuated before the locks and dams were…
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Don’t Forget My Cemetery Tour the 26th!
Next week is my tour of the Old City Cemetery in Monroe on DeSiard Street. We will meet at Mayor Forsythe’s grave at 10am. Mayor Forsythe is buried near the…
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The Cadeville Normal School Catalog
Did you know the little community of Cadeville once had a college? Yep! Found in the vertical files of the Special Collections Department was a copy of a catalog from…
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O.P. Slack Grocery
I was blown away when I found this. When an address is given for an old building, I like to pull up the Google map street image to see what…
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1915 Ouachita Parish High School Girls Basketball Team
The oldest area yearbook in the Ouachita Parish Public Library collection is a 1915 Ouachita Parish High School “Pelican”. It is kept upstairs in Special Collections due to it’s rarity.…
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Another great historical blog!
I happened to stumble across this fascinating blog the other day: https://erinantley.wordpress.com Her entries are mainly about Union Parish but she does have a few historical stories about Ouachita Parish.…
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An Account of the Sinking of the Buckeye, March, 1844 – Part VII
When Dr. Stone told me that amputation was really necessary, I proposed to him to make an examination of it by opening it. he said he would not do it,…
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An Account of the Sinking of the Buckeye, March, 1844 – Part VI
Well we were going through swamps, and of course could not have a steamboat, so the Capt. procured an immense skiff, and hired two colored men to row it, and…
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An Account of the Sinking of the Buckeye, March, 1844 – Part V
But to return to the sad scenes, the Captain of the DeSoto wished to leave the scene of the disaster before some had recovered their dead children. Among others, Mr.…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 