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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
map showing location of celebrity graves; California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau Certificate of Authority – Cemetery, License Number 506 Archived February 22, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Funeral Establishment License Number 951 Archived June 24, 2017, at the Wayback Machine
The original part of the Wing–Allore House, dating from approximately 1829, is a two-story, red brick, gable-front Italianate structure. Smaller additions were built on the side and rear at some point during ht 19th century, and further additions, mostly complementary flat-roofed structures, were added after 1939 when the house was converted to a funeral parlor.
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.
Braun Colonial Funeral Home, located at 3701 Falling Springs Road, was consolidated with Braun Family Funeral Home in Columbia. The last day of operation for Braun’s Cahokia Heights location was ...
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.
West Monroe is the second largest city in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is situated on the Ouachita River, across from the neighboring city of Monroe. The two cities are often referred to as the Twin Cities of northeast Louisiana. Its population was 13,065 at the 2010 census and it is part of the Monroe Metropolitan Statistical ...
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%). [1] Bright owned the two-story home until May 31, 1894, only four years.