Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Monroe City High School

  • Monroe City High School’s Last Graduating Class’ Gift to Monroe

    Back in 1931, Neville High School was being built. It would replace the old high school building which stood where Anna Grey Noe park is today. The old building was…

  • Victory Gardens in Monroe During WWI

    And this last photo, shows just one of the gardens grown in Monroe during WWI for the war effort. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017667718/ The article I cited in yesterday’s post, also talked about…

  • The Junior Red Cross Auxiliary “Does their bit”.

    I found this photo: https://www.loc.gov/resource/anrc.01733/ at the Library of Congress and found this paragraph in the News Star on September 21, 1918 that I believe describes it: Another way was…

  • Picking Cotton For the War Effort

    Back in 1918 during WWI, the Homefront was doing their part. This included the children. The big thing to do was to buy “Liberty Bonds” from the government. At the…

  • Area High Schools Once Had Live Mascots!

    Did you know that Neville and Ouachita Parish High School once had live mascots? Above is pictured Shasta the tiger, who was Neville’s mascot. Ouachita’s lion mascot was called Cheepa,…

  • Monroe City High School Photo

    I just love this photo from our Digital Collection. Only a few names are listed, but we can tell it dates to the first decade of 1900. The Leiber girl…

  • Monroe City High School 1915 Girl Graduate

    This is a great piece of Monroe History! The ULM library has this little gem they have digitized on the Digital Library: https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/ulm-p15140coll27%3A536 It is a yearbook of sorts from…

  • William Care Garnett – First Principal of Monroe City High School?

    I would say William C. Garnett would count as Monroe High School’s first principal. In the mid 1890’s Garnett appeared in Monroe and began work as the Assistant Principal at…

  • The First Graduating Class of the Monroe City High School.

    After yesterday’s post, I got interested in the very first graduating class of the Old Monroe City High School. I stumbled across an article in the Shreveport Journal newspaper (June…

  • Monroe City High School Handbook, 1902-03.

    This little booklet is priceless. The Student handbook is ubiquitous. Every student gets one when school starts. This handbook is 118 years old. Inside you will find a list of…