Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

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  • Ad for the Steamboat James Monroe

    This ad appeared in the Louisiana State Gazette newspaper (New Orleans, LA) on the front page of the Feb. 19, 1820 issue. Only a few months before, this boat landed…

  • The Ouachita Parish School Board of 1915

    And this is a page from the Pelican of 1915 showing the School Board representatives at the time. Some pretty big names!

  • A page of ads from the 1915 Pelican

    Continuing on with the Ouachita Parish High School yearbook of 1915, here is a page of ads. I just love the photographer’s picture! Mr. Church had bought out the studio…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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.…