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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.
Location of Ouachita Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, United States.
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.
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.
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 ...
The Wing–Allore House is a funeral home located at 203 E. Elm Avenue in Monroe. The house was built as a private home, converted to a funeral home in the 1930s, and remains in business as the Allore Chapel of the Martenson Family of Funeral Homes. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. [1]
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 ...
Louisiana Highway 34 (LA 34) is a state highway located in central and northern Louisiana.It runs 86.12 miles (138.60 km) in a southwest to northeast direction from the junction of U.S. Highway 71 (US 71) and LA 1239-2 in Montgomery to a junction with the concurrent US 80/LA 15 in West Monroe.