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Location of Ouachita Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Monroe is served by two African-American-owned weekly newspapers: the Monroe Free Press and the Monroe Dispatch. The Free Press was founded in 1969 by Roosevelt Wright, Jr., and The Dispatch was founded in 1975 by Irma and Frank Detiege. The Ouachita Citizen is a locally owned and operated weekly newspaper that was founded in 1924.
In 1916, the Monroe natural gas field was discovered. The field stretched more than 500 square miles (1,000 km 2) and was estimated to have 6,500,000,000,000 cubic feet (180 km 3) of natural gas in it. As a result, for a time the city of Monroe was known as the natural gas capital of the world. The new industry generated many jobs.
Louisiana Highway 34 (LA 34) is a state highway located in central and northern Louisiana.It runs 86.12 miles (138.60 km) in a southwest to northeast direction from the junction of U.S. Highway 71 (US 71) and LA 1239-2 in Montgomery to a junction with the concurrent US 80/LA 15 in West Monroe.
A family owned and operated funeral home closed its Cahokia Heights location after serving the community for 52 years. Braun Colonial Funeral Home, located at 3701 Falling Springs Road, was ...
Louisiana Highway 15 (LA 15) is a state highway located in central and northern Louisiana.It runs 194.10 miles (312.37 km) in a north–south direction from the junction of LA 1 and LA 970 in Lettsworth to the concurrent U.S. Highways 63 and 167 in Lillie.
A largely rural route, LA 138 connects the small villages of Collinston and Mer Rouge, located northeast of Monroe. Its southern terminus (LA 134) leads to Monroe in neighboring Ouachita Parish, as well as the village of Oak Ridge in southern Morehouse Parish. The northern terminus is located at the east end of the concurrency of US 165 and US 425.
G. B. Cooley House, a historic residence in Monroe, Louisiana, is a distinguished example of the Prairie School architectural style. Designed by Walter Burley Griffin , a contemporary of Frank Lloyd Wright , the house was completed in 1926 for entrepreneur Gilbert Brian ‘Captain’ Cooley.