Tag: Sterlington
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Unmarked Slave Burial Ground in Sterlington
This one I stumbled upon Wednesday. I have told you about the Phillips family cemetery in Sterlington on 165 North. It is the one marked with a stone cross, just…
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Bufferin and St. Timothy Cemeteries
Have you ever visited the two African American cemeteries at Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge? They are known as Bufferin and St. Timothy. Bufferin was once called Richland Plantation…
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Three Grand Openings in One Day!
November 16, 1925 was a great day in northeast Louisiana history. A grand opening banquet was being held for the Hotel Virginia in downtown Monroe. It was Monroe’s newest and…
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Mayors of Sterlington
Back in 2018, I compiled and posted a list of mayors of Monroe, Richwood and West Monroe. At the time, I was having trouble getting the 1980s-1990’s mayors of Sterlington…
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A Glimpse of Life in Northern Ouachita Parish in the Early 1800’s.
I have told you about our dear friend Charles, who left behind a biography of his early life in the area that would become Sterlington. He was the nephew of…
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New Fear Unlocked: The Unfortunate Death of Ernie Young
Late in the evening of February 4, 1953, gas pipeline worker Ernie Young crawled into one of the large gas lines at Sterlington to clean it out. While he was cleaning,…
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A Photo of the founder of Sterlington?
This is another photo found in the collection of Dr. E. Russ Williams. On the back was the notation, “Poss. John Sterling”. That would be John Taylor Sterling, whom Sterlington,…
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Sterling Plantation
Take a look at this picture of Sterling Plantation taken in 1941 before the plantation burned November 2, 1944! It was built by John Taylor Sterling in the early 1800s…
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A New Treasure to Pour Over!
I found about a month ago, a collection in the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA that uncovered an entire lost history of the people who lived around Sterlington in…
Ouachita Parish History Tidbits 