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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MMG_epps-house_Alexandria-LA.html
Built in 1852 by Edwin Epps. Originally located near Holmesville on Bayou Boeuf about three miles away. From 1843 to 1853, Epps, a small planter, owned Solomon Northrup, author of famous slave narrative Twelve Years A Slave.
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/HMPNN_the-guaranty-eagles_Alexandria-LA.html
Carved of Indiana limestone, originally a part of the Guaranty Bank Building constructed in 1921. Salvaged in 1965 during a major building remodeling, and returned to Guaranty in 1981.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPNM_st-francis-xavier-cathedral-complex_Alexandria-LA.html
When Poste du Rapides was established in Pineville the Catholic mission of St. Louis des Apalachees was founded. Mass was said in private homes in the new town of Alexandria. A chapel built in 1817 was the first church of any denomination in this …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPNL_red-river_Alexandria-LA.html
Side ATwenty-seven miles southeast of Tucumcari, New Mexico, Red River originates in the watershed of the Frio Draw on the Llano Estacado at an elevation of about 5000 feet. Flowing eastward through Palo Duro Canyon, it subsequently forms the bord…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPNK_rapides-parish-governors_Alexandria-LA.html
Four 19th century Rapides Parish residents served Louisiana as governor.
Joseph Marshall Walker (1784-1856), a Bayou Rapides cotton planter, was governor 1850-53 — the first to be installed in the newly-designated Baton Rouge capital. Dur…
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…