East Carroll Parish, Louisiana Genealogy

I have been informed that John Millikin was here since before 1812. Millikin held a Spanish claim for land in the very northeast corner of ...

"The earliest settler that I have found that remained living in the L. P. area is Warren Magruder Benton. I have found him here and the...

RETURNING: "Thus, it was to a ravaged and bitter land that the weary veterans returned from the easter battlefields. Maimed and scarred...

This came out of Georgia Pinkston’s book “A Place to Remember” During the first months of 1861, military companies were formed throughout Lo...

1st Kansas Regiment For years, researchers have been aware of a small blurb that appeared in an 1863 edition of the Poughkeepsie (NY)Telegra...

I ran across this in the book "Slavery & the Constitution", by William Ingersoll Bowditch. It is a notice from a newspaper fr...

AN UGLY CUSTOMER.--Our friend Billy Alexander, who, by-the-way, is quite a Nimrod, and the acknowledged champion shot in the country, killed...

Richard Martin , stationed at Lake Providence, La. (From Clara Martin's autobiography) Richard Martin, aged 21 years, of Ireland, left ...

From "A Place to Remember", by Georgia Payne Durham Pinkston

From "A Place to Remember", by Georgia Payne Pinkston AN IMMENCE GATHERING, FINE SPORT, A DELIGHTUL DAY, & A GRAND BALL AT ...

( Poverty Point Brochure) A Rich Culture flourished Eight Centuries before Christ The time was eight centuries after Egyptian slaves dragged...

In conjunction with the attacks on Milliken's Bend and Young's Point launched on June 7, Confederate General Richard Taylor ordered ...

"Mr. Bob Brawley, of Virginia, sent to me a package that contained a collection of articles concerning the original owners of the Arlin...

Northeast Louisiana Soldiers in the Civil War I am trying to put all the rosters of the regiments/units that was organized in the area of ...

I took about one third of the L. P. Cemetery's headstone pictures about 3 weeks ago. If you are interested is seeing a particular headst...

"Life on the Mississippi" (Mark Twain's memory of L. P. or Stack Island) [sketch by Sandy Guthrie Moore] STACK ISLAND [some c...

MURALS: Mural (top left & right) is located in downtown Lake Providence. It is a wonderful painting of the alligators' territory...

(NAME) (DATE) (DOC.#) (ACCESSION #) 18 N, 10 E BRYANT, GEORGE W 07/05/1849 531B LA1430__.031 GREEN, ROBERT ...