Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Ouachita River

  • Ouachita River Low Water – 1919

    And to go along with yesterday’s photo, the above photo was also taken in 1919 during the low water. On the back is written, “Ouachita River when very low. 1919…

  • Summer, 1919 – The Year The Ouachita River Ran Dry

    The above photo is part of the Library’s collection of area photos. It shows two people standing in a canoe on the bank of a river. Enclosed with the photo…

  • Journal of the Rev. Timothy Flint part VI

              This sort of Arcadian simplicity and equality at Ouachitta is a transmitted remain of the olden days of the country, that is, forty or fifty years since.  I was…

  • 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…

  • Journal of the Rev. Timothy Flint part IV

              The soil on the surface is generally light, fertile, and of a black colour, except in the oaklands, where it is whitish, and rather stiff and meagre clay.  At…

  • Journal of the Rev. Timothy Flint part III

              Bayley’s, a tavern where you have stopped, is intermediate between Harrisonburg and Monroe, and is a noted stopping place on the Ouachita.  The situation is lonely but beautiful.  A…

  • Journal of the Rev. Timothy Flint Part II

              Fifteen miles on the way from Red River to Ouachitta we pass Big Creek, affording the most delightful angling and the greatest supply of fine fish of any stream…

  • A Travel Diary of an 1835 Trip up the Ouachita River

    A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to attend training in Washington, DC.  A day of my classes was to be held at the Library of Congress.  I…

  • Monroe’s Riverfront in 1907.

    I love this one!  The water was incredibly low during the summer of 1907.  Can you imagine wading across the Ouachita?  The big building in the foreground is Ouachita National…