Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

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  • 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

  • The Overland Automobile

    One of the earliest car dealerships in Monroe was the Overland Car company. I found an ad for one of their dealerships in a 1915 newspaper. It was called George…

  • Krewe Themes

    Continuing on from yesterday’s topic, Each year’s parade has an overall “theme”. The themes are suggested and voted on by krewe members years in advance. Each float has to go…

  • Krewe of Janus/de Riviere Kings and Queens

    Tis the season in Louisiana!  The Krewe of Janus rolls tomorrow, and I thought I would provide a list of the past kings and queens since the beginning in 1984! …

  • DAR Chapter House has a forgotten Time Capsule!

    I think I may have just found a hidden time capsule! At the DAR Chapter House, on the grounds of the Courthouse, sit two benches, in honor of the founding…

  • Site of the old library on Jackson.

    I took this from a window of the hospital parking garage. This was the site of the old Anna Meyer home, which became the second Monroe library building. Made me…