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July 7, 1995 (111 Stone Ave. Monroe: 10: First United Methodist Church: First United Methodist Church: June 12, 2001 (101 N. 2nd St. West Monroe: 11: Isaiah Garrett Law Office
The property was sold to William A. Bright by Melinda T. Layton. Bright owned The H.C. & A. Railroad before selling it to Jay Gould and settling down in Monroe, Louisiana where he built the Queen Anne house on Jackson Street for $7,000 ($235,146.92 in 2023 based on an average inflation rate of 2.68%).
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.
Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), Union general and 18th President of the United States, who acquired slaves through his wife and father-in-law. [133] On March 29, 1859, Grant freed his slave William Jones, making Jones the last person to have been enslaved by a person who later served as U.S. president. [134]
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.
The 1811 German Coast uprising was a slave rebellion which occurred in the Territory of Orleans from January 8–10, 1811. It occurred on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the modern-day Louisiana parishes of St. John the Baptist , St. Charles and Jefferson . [ 1 ]
The Village of Monroe Historic District, also known as the Smith's Mill Historic District, is located in Monroe, New York, United States.It is an irregularly shaped 81-acre (33 ha) area containing 36 properties, primarily residential but with some churches and commercial buildings, in the center of the village, just east of its downtown.
The Monroe metropolitan area, officially the Monroe metropolitan statistical area, is a metropolitan statistical area in Northern Louisiana that covers three parishes—Ouachita, Union, and Morehouse. According to the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 207,104.