Ouachita Parish History Tidbits

Tag: Timothy Flint

  • Lovers Lane Catalpas

    This picture popped up on a Facebook thread a couple of weeks ago and it brought to mind the story of how those trees got there. If you are unfamiliar…

  • 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…