Tag: Ouachita Parish History
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Plantation Homes of Ouachita Parish
Another map to come out of the 1976-77 Historical Preservation Study, showed the plantation homes that stood along the Ouachita River. A lot of them are still standing.
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A Ouachita Settlement Before Fort Miro?
I was reading a thesis called, “Study of landscape changes in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana” by Danny Allen. It was all about the effects of human settlement in Ouachita Parish on…
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Map of the Small Communities of Ouachita Parish
Wednesday, my boss found a map of Ouachita Parish pasted in the front cover of one of our Peters Funeral Home Records books. It appears to be hand drawn and…
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A Panther Upsets a Family Meal
Ballou’s Pictorial, Boston, MA, January 20, 1855, Page 46, “Editorial Melange.” A panther entered the dining room of a house in Ouachita Parish, La. a short time since, while the…
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A Lost Methodist Preacher
I have seemed to come to a dead end in this wild goose chase. I happened to stumble across a book digitized on Archive.org entitled, “Minutes of the Louisiana Conference,…
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A Steel Bridge at Travelers Rest Stock Farm
How about this photo of a bridge at Travelers Rest in West Monroe? Wonder which bridge it was?
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Ingleside Plantation Circa 1910
I found this online in a book published in 1912 by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Immigration called, “A hand-book of Louisiana”. I’ll be posting a couple more photos…
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Horse Racing in Monroe
This ad for a local horse race meet, appeared in the Ouachitta Banner in October, 1839. It is not known where this race course was, but the stakes were pretty…
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The P.M. Atkins Bridge
Did you know that the Lea Joyner bridge was actually originally named for someone else? In 1931, Monroe and West Monroe decided they needed a new bridge across the Ouachita…
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A History of Mardi Gras in Monroe
The week previous to last week’s ice storm, I was asked by Vantage Health to be filmed giving a lecture on the history of Mardi Gras in Monroe. It premiered…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 