Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Ouachita Parish Schools

  • A History of Loch Arbor School and Colony School

    You never know where you might find random bits of genealogy and history information. Who would ever think of researching the history of an area’s schools in the yearbooks of…

  • Ouachita Parish High School

    This is a photograph of the original OPHS building at an angle I have never seen before! This building became the Junior High before being torn down to make way…

  • Ouachita Parish School Board, 1965-1966.

    https://www.louisianadigitallibrary.org/islandora/object/oplib-bsc%3A63 A similar picture to this one in our collection was found in the 1966 West Monroe High School yearbook, the Rebelaire. It identified the men in the photo as:…

  • Logtown School 1970-1971

    Did you have family that attended the Logtown School in the 1970 – 1971 school year? Then take a look at these photos! They show the school band, cheerleaders and…

  • Boley School Photos

    Did you or your family go to Boley between 1970 – 71? I highly recommend looking at these: I especially love the photo of the mascot!

  • Ouachita Parish Schools and the People They Are Named For.

    Do you read the Ouachita Parish Public Library’s newsletter called Cattails? If you do, you know that in the back of every issue is an article about local history, written…

  • Prairie Du Bois

    This is a great little article about Prairie Du Bois in Southeastern Ouachita Parish. Port Gibson Herald (Port Gibson, MS), August 31, 1843 PRAIRIE DU BOIS. – One of the…

  • The Destruction of the Original Ouachita Parish High School

    This photo appeared in the News-Star in a July, 1961 edition. It shows the wrecking ball taking down the original Ouachita Parish High School. The land where it once stood…

  • Ouachita Parish High School Graduating Classes

    We still continue to go through and find treasures in our collection. Two Ouachita Parish High School documents from the 1920’s are of particular interest. The first is a 1921…

  • 1904 Ouachita Parish High School Catalogue

    Here is a treasure! A new document just digitized for our collection is almost 120 years old! It is a rare Ouachita Parish high School handbook published in 1904. In…