Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Mulberry Grove Plantation

  • Photos of Mulberry Grove and Layton Castle

    I recently went back to the Layton Castle website. They have recently added photos of the building before and after it was turned into a castle. You can see them…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • 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…

  • Women’s Suffrage in Ouachita Parish

    I found this article in the February 22, 1907 Winnfield newspaper called The Southern Sentinel.  The first part of the article quotes the Monroe News.  The News was one of…

  • The death of Judge Isaac Henry Bry

    If you live in or near Monroe, you are familiar with Layton Castle.  What you probably don’t know, is that Layton Castle is much older than it appears.  At it’s…