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James Rhodes purchased the paper on May 1, 1929 and the paper transitioned to a daily a few months later. In 1936, the paper purchased the weekly Carroll Times and merged it with the Carroll Herald to form the Carroll Times Herald. [6] Rhodes died in January 1944. The Herald was purchased from his estate a year later by James W. Wilson. [6]
Individual markers were placed near the obelisk in 2008 to honor the soldiers. [6] The last surviving Confederate widow in Minden, storekeeper Alberta Glass (August 25, 1845 – January 8, 1937), is interred at Minden Cemetery. [7] In 2003, the Minden Cemetery Association began conducting an annual "Ghost Walk" to raise money for cemetery upkeep.
Claiborne Parish (French: Paroisse de Claiborne) is a parish located in the northwestern section of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The parish was formed in 1828, [1] and was named for the first Louisiana governor, William C. C. Claiborne. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,170. [2] The parish seat is Homer. [3]
This list of cemeteries in Louisiana includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Webster Parish (French: Paroisse de Webster) is a parish located in the northwestern section of the U.S. state of Louisiana.The parish seat and largest city is Minden. [1]As of the 2020 census, the Webster Parish population was 36,967. [2]
The Herbert S. Ford Memorial Museum is a museum of local history and culture housed in the former Claiborne Hotel at 519 South Main Street in Homer in Claiborne Parish in North Louisiana. The Homer Chamber of Commerce is headquartered inside the two-story museum, which is located across the historic town square from the Claiborne Parish Courthouse.
In the Great Blizzard of 1899, Minden experienced the coldest temperature ever recorded in Louisiana, when the temperature fell on February 13, 1899, to −16 °F or −26.7 °C. [3] During the Great Depression, one of the two Minden banks failed and a fire destroyed a major section of the downtown area (1931).
Area code: 318: Summerfield is an ... Louisiana, United States. It is located sixteen miles northeast of the parish seat of Homer. History