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Leesville is a city in, and the parish seat of, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States. [3] The population was 5,649 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Fort Johnson South micropolitan area and is additionally served by the Leesville Airport. The city is home to the Fort Johnson (formerly known as Fort Polk) U.S. Army installation.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
Vernon Parish map, 1895. [8] Old First National Bank Building in downtown Leesville, LA, now the Courthouse Annex building. In the late 1890s the timber industry, which was the dominant industry in the parish from its creation, began to boom with the construction of the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1897. It increased access to markets.
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English: Downtown Leesville, Louisiana: west side of 3rd Street, looking north-northwest from its intersection with Lula Street. This portion of 3rd lies within the Downtown Leesville Historic District, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
The Kansas City Southern Depot, now the Museum of West Louisiana, is a former railway station in Leesville, Louisiana. It was built by the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1916. [ 2 ] It served as a combination of passenger station, freight station, and crew change point. [ 3 ]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Louisiana that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register; or are otherwise significant for their history, their association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
The Vernon Parish Courthouse, located at 201 S. 3rd St. in Leesville in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, was built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and is part of the 30th Judicial District Court of Louisiana. The stuccoed masonry courthouse is Classical Revival in style.