Great Louisiana Maneuvers

The United States Army GHQ (General Headquarters) Maneuvers of 1941, were the largest training exercises ever conducted by the U.S. Army. From the maneuvers, the U.S. learned valuable lessons in military strategy which would help it succeed in W.W. II. ...

Dreamland Theatre

Circa 1915

Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Marker is on 3rd Street north of East Texas Street, on the left when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

First National Bank

Circa 1907

Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of 3rd Street and East Lula Street, on the left when traveling north on 3rd Street.

Courtesy ...

National Hotel

Circa 1907

Lee and Syril Eissman Building has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of 3rd Street and East Courthouse Street, on the left when traveling ...

Stephen Tyng Mather

July 4, 1887 - Jan. 22, 1930

He laid the foundation of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end ...

St. Francis Xavier Cathedral Complex

When Poste du Rapides was established in Pineville the Catholic mission of St. Louis des Apalachees was founded. Mass was said in private homes in the new town of Alexandria. A chapel built in 1817 was the first church of ...

115th Signal Battalion

Organized 1940

At this site where once stood Fort Willingham (Armory) the 115th Signal Battalion was organized December 1, 1940. Originally the 2nd Battalion, 151st Engineers, it was organized a number of times from 1940 to 1959 as its mission was ...

Broom Hall Plantation

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Broom Hall Plantation, later called Bloom Hall and still later Bloomfield, was first granted to Edward Middleton in 1678. By 1710 this property passed to Benjamin Gibbes (d. 1722), who named it for Broom House, his ancestral home ...

Attack of the 17th Massachusetts

It was along the top of this railroad embankment that one Union regiment, the 17th

Massachusetts, approached the railroad bridge one quarter mile to your left. As the men

of the 17th fought their way along the top of the ...

Demonstration - 1862

Jan. 1862, Brig. Gen. U.S. Grant sent 5,000 USA troops from Cairo as a demonstration against Columbus, a Confederate stronghold on the Miss. River. Combined forces led by Brig. Gen. J.A. McClernand from Ft. Jefferson at Wickliffe through here to ...