Ouachita Parish High School - Roarer Yearbook (Monroe, LA)

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South Monroe boasts two places of special historic interest+Lovers' Lane and Layton Place. Lovers' Lane was originally an ave- nue of catalpa trees running through the lower Pargoucl Plantation, the prop- erty of Hypolite and lean Francois Pargoud. Layton Place is associated hristori- cally With Iudge Henry Bry, responsible for the naming ot Monroe, Vtlhen John I. Audubon was collecting materials for his Birds of America, he tramped the forest swamps of North Louisiana, so- journed tor months at the Bry horne, and left there many of his original drawings. Beginnings ln the days when cotton was king, Old Trenton, a thriving port, situated along the west banks of the Ouachita, teemed with commission merchants. Here steamboats landed, loaded their bales, and unloaded cargoes from New Orleans. Lovers' Lane 'QD f rv' 4 'Lv' A, 'V' tr Page Seven Shipping Cotton on the Ouachita Bell from the West Monroe Landing in By-gone Days

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Don Iuan Filhiol, Pounder of Monroe Don luan Filhiol, a Frenchman, about 1782 was appointed commandant ot the Ouachita District by Don Estevan Miro, Spanish pro- visional governor of Louisiana. ln 1785 he de- scended the Ouachita River from Camden, Arkansas, to what was then called Prairie des Canots, subsequently renamed the Ouachita Post. Upon a petition of the inhabitants in 1790, Fort Miro Was built. Following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, Lieutenant Ioseph Bomar took possession ot the Ouachita District for the United States. ln honor of the fames Monroe, first steamboat to ascend the Ouachita, the settlement in 1819 assumed the name Monroe. Miro, Filhiol, Ludwig, and Linderman, streets in Monroe and West Monroe, reveal historic association with the founder. ur Community S l:'ilhio1 ' Plantation Home Picking Cotton on a Ouachita Plantation Page Six

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Beginning with a six-room building which ,housed in l894 both grammar and high school departments, the present plant for these two departments with combined enrollments of l938 stu' dents and faculties of seventy-seven is as follows: The grammar school, enlarged from the original l894 building to its present size, the high school, containing sixty class rooms, tour laboratories, caieteria, auditorium, and l2,UUO-volume libraryg the gymnasium furnishing also a band departmentg the studio serving the Vocal music department, the garage and parking lot used ior its fleet of thirty-three buses. Ouachita has ever given distinguished service to its corn- niunity and has won numerous awards in literary and athletic contests. lts 5748 graduates have been worthy representatives of their Alma Materi ' lt is noteworthy that its destiny has been guided since its inception in 1894 by only four principals-H. E. Chambers, l894- lS96g H. H. Byrd, l896-H3995 T. O. Brown, 1899-19087 lack Hayes, l908w. Ouachitas First Horne Economics Department T. O. Brown, who served nine years as Ouachita's Princi pal and thirty-one as Ouachita Parish Superintendent. A man whose very life was woven into Ouachita's warp and Woof. ' Ouachita's First School Bus PCIQQ Elghf