Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Mayors of Monroe

  • The Unsolved Murders of Crawford and Harris

                   I found this article several years back in the Ouachita Telegraph.  It appeared Saturday, September 13, 1873.  I incorporated this story into my Old City Cemetery tour.  Harris was…

  • Confederate Reunion in Monroe, 1913

    Very long photo, and unfortunately, I had to make it very small to get the whole thing in!  This was taken at the state confederate reunion in Monroe, September, 1913. …

  • George Byron Hamlet: Monroe’s first African-American mayor

    A few weeks ago, I was just playing around on the internet, seeing what was out there by searching prominent names in Monroe’s history, and seeing what came up.  I…

  • Mayors of Monroe, LA

    A while back, someone asked for a list of all of Monroe’s mayors.  I quickly realized that wasn’t as easy to find as I thought.  There is nothing to be…