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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM236Z_alexandria-national-cemetery_Pineville-LA.html
The Alexandria National Cemetery, Pineville, was authorized by an Act of Congress on February 22, 1867, and the United States, through the Secretary of War, took possession April 1871 of this property from the Succession of Franco Poussan. The par…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM236Y_mount-olivet-cemetery-and-chapel_Pineville-LA.html
The cemetery was purchased in 1858 by St. James Episcopal Church, Alexandria. It is the second oldest cemetery in Rapides Parish and has always served as a community burial ground. The earliest marker is 1824.
Mount Olivet Chapel was establish…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM236V_city-of-pineville_Pineville-LA.html
In 1722 Diron d'Artaguette, Inspector of Troops in Louisiana, recommended the establishment of a fortified post on Red River to prevent Indian attacks on those portaging the rapids. Although it is probably that some type of French presence was est…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM236U_mount-olivet-chapel_Pineville-LA.html
Oldest Structure in Pineville. It was completed in 1857. At one time during the Civil War, it served as barracks for the Federals. Mount Olivet now serves as a chapel of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPS9_the-dam-works_Pineville-LA.html
The Lexington is freedBy May 8, the water level had risen five feet four inches, allowing the lighter draft gunboats, the Fort Hindman, Neosho, and Osage, to cross the upper rapids and wait behind the dams. Fearing that the structure would not hol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPS7_baileys-dam_Pineville-LA.html
If damming would get the fleet off, it would have been afloat long before." Rear Admiral David D. Porter
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph BaileyWhile Union officers surveyed the situation and discussed the possible loss of the boats trapped in the riv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPOO_the-red-river-campaign_Pineville-LA.html
"I trust some future historian will treat this matter as it deserves to be treated, because it is a subject in which the whole country should feel an interest..."Rear Admiral David D. Porter May 16, 1864
Assembling the TroopsIn March of 1864, n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPNO_the-jewish-cemetery_Pineville-LA.html
The earliest known Jewish settler in the Alexandria-Pineville area was Henry Michael Hyams, whose name appears in the 1830 census. The earliest grave marker identifiable on this site tells that Augusta Bernstein, daughter of Samuel Bernstein, was …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPNJ_old-rapides-bank-building_Pineville-LA.html
This structure was built on property that once belonged to Alexander Fulton. He had acquired it at the end of the 18th century from Marguerite Cecile Christophe Varrangue. Various persons occupied this site until it was acquired by Rapides Bank in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4W4_fort-buhlow-and-fort-randolph_Pineville-LA.html
Fort Buhlow and Fort Randolph were earthwork/moat fortifications constructed beginning October 1864 by Confederate forces anticipating a repetition of Union Gen. Nathaniel Banks' Summer 1864 Red RiverExpedition. Construction, completed March 1865,…