Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Ouachita Parish High School

  • 1930 Roarer

    I have been thumbing through a few of the old area yearbooks and some of the pages have caught my eye. I will share them here for the next few…

  • Ouachita Parish High School Faculty, 1914 – 1915

    Solemn bunch aren’t they? This is the faculty that taught at Ouachita Parish High School over 100 years ago! No order of the names was given, but the above people…

  • 1915 Ouachita Parish High School Girls Basketball Team

    The oldest area yearbook in the Ouachita Parish Public Library collection is a 1915 Ouachita Parish High School “Pelican”. It is kept upstairs in Special Collections due to it’s rarity.…

  • Yearbooks in the Genealogy Department

    Did you know that the Ouachita Parish Public Library’s Genealogy department has a large collection of elementary/secondary/college yearbooks? Over the next couple of days, I’ll post the list of what…

  • I 20 Overpass Construction Circa 1966

    This photo is from the Ouachita Parish Public Library photo collection. It shows the I 20 overpass over the Ouachita River during construction. Students are walking to the “new” Ouachita…

  • The Old Ouachita Parish High School

    Most people when you mention the old Ouachita Parish High School, they think of  the senior housing now known as Ouachita Grand Plaza.  That building was the Parish High School…