Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Ouachita River

  • Houseboats Along the Ouachita River Levee

    This is an interesting little postcard I found that I have never seen before! It shows some children riding in a ski boat along the Ouachita River with skiers in…

  • The U.S. Waterway Dredge Boat

    This dredge boat traveled up and down the Ouachita dredging the river to make it navigable in 1921 when they were building the locks and dams system. This picture shows…

  • The Salt Water Natatorium right after it was built.

    This next photo is the Salt Water Natatorium from an angle I have never seen before. You can clearly see the Pavilion off to the right. I think in the…

  • The Ouachita Belle

    Tulane has a very impressive steamboat collection. Among the collection is this beauty: https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:75015 I think they have the date wrong though. The Ouachita Belle was built in Louisville, KY…

  • 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…

  • Steamboat Landing on the Ouachita – Circa 1905

    This is a postcard I bought on Ebay. It shows the steamboat Frank B. Hayne at a landing somewhere in Monroe (Pine street maybe?). The postcard was written on the…

  • The Ouachita River

    Last week I was the winning bid on several Monroe related postcards. I’ll be sharing them with you over the next several days. This one is a great hand colored…

  • Monroe Skyline, Circa 1960

    I have seen the above postcard many times. It shows the Monroe skyline from the West Monroe side of the Ouachita River. Endom Bridge is in the foreground. Very pretty…

  • Steamboat Ouachita

    I love this picture of the Cooley boat Ouachita on the Louisiana Digital Library. This boat steamed up and down the Ouachita hauling cotton for years. This gives you a…

  • The Ouachita River in 1913

    The above photos show the same scene along the Ouachita River a little over a month apart. It shows how wildly river levels fluctuated before the locks and dams were…