Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

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  • Tallyho Riding: Courtship in the Late 1800’s.

    Have you ever heard of Tallyho riding? No? Me neither. This little article in a rare copy of the Monroe Morning post, appeared in a 1929 issue. It had been…

  • Lover’s Lane

    Last week’s post from that 1835 trip, had me thinking about the legend of those Catalpa trees on Lover’s Lane. I did some hunting on the newspapers.com website and found…

  • The Story of a Colonial African-American in Ouachita Parish

    I told you many months ago about Zadoc Harmon, a free man of color who lived in Ouachita Parish when it was still part of France and later Spain’s territory.…

  • 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…