I was reading a thesis called, "Study of landscape changes in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana" by Danny Allen. It was all about the effects of human settlement in Ouachita Parish on the landscape (read the whole thing here: https://openresearch.okstate.edu/entities/publication/830ea04f-026d-428a-a54a-fd0fc0626485 ) when I found something I hadn't heard before. This thesis claimed that in 1719, France decided … Continue reading A Ouachita Settlement Before Fort Miro? →