Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Lovers Lane

  • Lovers Lane – Circa 1910

    I really wish this view was still around! The postmark on the back was January 22, 1910. Very few of those catalpas remain on South Grand!

  • 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…

  • Another Lovers Lane Postcard

    There seems to be at least a half dozen photo postcards of Lovers Lane! Those power lines are so low in this photo! I wonder if they are for the…

  • The History of Benton's Bell Battery

    Have you ever wondered how the confederate unit known as Benton’s Bell Battery, got it’s name? My boss continues to digitize our WPA collection and this was a recent upload.…

  • 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 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…

  • Lovers Lane

    This is a pretty postcard of “Lovers Lane”, aka South Grand Street, around 1940. Notice the catalpa trees that line the street. In a previous article, I told you a…

  • Lovers Lane

    Did you know Monroe once had a Lovers Lane?  Yep!  The above penny postcard was done in the teens.  See those trees with fencing in between?  That was a happy…