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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 .
Location of Vernon Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Vernon Parish, Louisiana. 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 ...
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 ]
Vernon Parish (French: Paroisse de Vernon) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana.As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,750. [1] The parish seat and most populous municipality is Leesville. [2]
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.
Fort Johnson, formerly Fort Polk, is a United States Army installation located in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, about 10 miles (15 km) east of Leesville and 30 miles (50 km) north of DeRidder in Beauregard Parish. Named after New York soldier William Henry Johnson, the post encompasses about 198,000 acres (309 sq mi).
The Edmond Ellison Smart House, in Leesville in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, is believed to have been built in about 1870. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. [1] It was the longtime home of Dr. Edmond Ellison Smart (d.1908), founder of the town of Leesville. [2]
The First United Methodist Church is a church in Leesville, Louisiana.Located at 202 N. Fifth Street, the building was built in 1920 in a Bungalow style/Craftsman style, Mission style/Spanish Revival style and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.