Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

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  • A Priceless Artifact of Monroe Colored High School History

    A couple of weeks ago, while browsing Ebay, I found an autograph book for sale from 1941. Looking at the pictures of the pages, I soon realized it was an…

  • A Panther Upsets a Family Meal

    Ballou’s Pictorial, Boston, MA, January 20, 1855, Page 46, “Editorial Melange.” A panther entered the dining room of a house in Ouachita Parish, La. a short time since, while the…

  • A Lost Methodist Preacher

    I have seemed to come to a dead end in this wild goose chase. I happened to stumble across a book digitized on Archive.org entitled, “Minutes of the Louisiana Conference,…

  • A Steel Bridge at Travelers Rest Stock Farm

    How about this photo of a bridge at Travelers Rest in West Monroe? Wonder which bridge it was?

  • The Salt Water Natatorium right after it was built.

    This next photo is the Salt Water Natatorium from an angle I have never seen before. You can clearly see the Pavilion off to the right. I think in the…

  • Ingleside Plantation Circa 1910

    I found this online in a book published in 1912 by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Immigration called, “A hand-book of Louisiana”. I’ll be posting a couple more photos…

  • The Daily Electric Letter

    What you are looking at is page three of a four page newspaper called the Daily Electric Letter, published at Monroe November 13, 1877. This is the local news section.…

  • Market House Restaurant

    News-Star, December 16, 1911 The Market House Restaurant is conveniently located in the City Market House on DeSiard street and it is under the able and progressive management of the…

  • Monroe Roads and Ditches Maintained in 1825.

    I found the above article in an 1825 Washita Gazette. It basically ordered Monroe citizens owning town lots to maintain the roads and ditches around their lots. Kinda wish they…

  • Horse Racing in Monroe

    This ad for a local horse race meet, appeared in the Ouachitta Banner in October, 1839. It is not known where this race course was, but the stakes were pretty…