Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Author: Lora Diane Peppers

  • Ouachita Parish Related Facebook Groups

    Yesterday, I told you about the Genealogy and Historical societies that cover Ouachita Parish. The newest issue of “Forgotten Louisiana” listed the Facebook groups that cover Northeast Louisiana parishes. I…

  • Ouachita Parish Genealogy Related Societies

    Genealogy and historical societies are great sources of information. Their magazines have information sometimes, that isn’t published anywhere else. Sometimes they have great online databases only available to their members.…

  • Journal of the Rev. Timothy Flint part VI

              This sort of Arcadian simplicity and equality at Ouachitta is a transmitted remain of the olden days of the country, that is, forty or fifty years since.  I was…

  • Journal of the Rev. Timothy Flint Part V

              Judge Bry has ennobled the ordinary money-getting pursuit of a planter, by directing it by science, experiment, and taste ; and as he is one of the most thriving…

  • Journal of the Rev. Timothy Flint part IV

              The soil on the surface is generally light, fertile, and of a black colour, except in the oaklands, where it is whitish, and rather stiff and meagre clay.  At…

  • Journal of the Rev. Timothy Flint part III

              Bayley’s, a tavern where you have stopped, is intermediate between Harrisonburg and Monroe, and is a noted stopping place on the Ouachita.  The situation is lonely but beautiful.  A…

  • Journal of the Rev. Timothy Flint Part II

              Fifteen miles on the way from Red River to Ouachitta we pass Big Creek, affording the most delightful angling and the greatest supply of fine fish of any stream…

  • A Travel Diary of an 1835 Trip up the Ouachita River

    A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend training in Washington, DC.  A day of my classes was to be held at the Library of Congress.  I…

  • Monroe Baseball Team – 1905

    And to go along with yesterday’s post, I did a little online digging for the Spaulding guides and found they have been digitized at the Library of Congress. Here is…

  • Baseball in Monroe

    Did you know that Monroe was home to many minor league baseball teams in the early 20th century? I have heard a lot of the names, such as the White…