Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Henry Bry

  • The Murder of General Ferdinand Morgan from Charles Morhouse’s Perspective

    In the previous blog post, I told you about finding the Edward Livingston Papers in the Special Collections of the Princeton University Library. Several letters have caught my attention, including…

  • Lovers Lane Catalpas

    This picture popped up on a Facebook thread a couple of weeks ago and it brought to mind the story of how those trees got there. If you are unfamiliar…

  • The Layton Castle Collection

    Layton Castle has a massive amount of records in it’s collection. Some documents even date back to the 1790’s! As the current owner of the castle has been organizing the…

  • Oldest Camellia Trees in Ouachita Parish

    I found a fun little article in the September 29, 1963 Monroe Morning World, describing the oldest known Camellia plants in the parish. Three were documented. The oldest was a…

  • Painting of Isaac Henry Bry

    This painting hangs in Layton Castle. It is the only known portrait of Henry. I love it, due to the slight smile he has. According to the book, “Louisiana Portraits”…

  • One of The Oldest Ouachita Parish Obituaries I Have Found

    I am testing a new newspaper database and had it search for Ouachita related articles. I found an obituary, written in French, in the Courrier de la Louisiane (New Orleans)…

  • Layton Home (Layton Castle)

    This next document concerns the “Layton Home”, aka Mulberry Grove, aka Layton Castle. https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-wpa%3A7

  • 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…

  • 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…