Walter HitesmanThe GazetteOctober 5, 1939 Interesting Story About Steamboat Days Here Is Told By Old-Timer The heyday of the steamboat era in Farmerville, the day when cotton ruled and the Bayous D'Arbonne and Cornie flowed southward with river steamers riding upon their crests, the days when a constant commerce of cotton streamed through Farmerville on … Continue reading Steamboat Days Here
The GazetteOctober 5, 1939 The distinction of having the first telephones below Mason-Dixon line goes to Farmerville and Union Parish. The credit for bringing this distinction to Farmerville goes to Col. Daniel Stein pioneer merchant, of these parts Running an enormous store here, Mr. Stein went to New York several times a year to buy … Continue reading Farmerville Had First Telephone In Entire South
Written by Dr. Timothy D. Hudson The earliest European settlers of modern Union Parish, John Honeycutt, Sr. and his son, John Honeycutt, Jr., made their way from Natchez, Mississippi to the Poste d’Ouachita in 1792. Then a tiny, insignificant outpost in the unsettled hinterlands of Spain’s Luisiana Colony, the region remained a backwoods locale until … Continue reading Dandridge & Eliza Claiborne
Written by Dr. Timothy D. Hudson W. Jackson Overstreet’s arrival in the fall of 1879 briefly shattered the peaceful calm that typically prevailed throughout nineteenth century Union Parish. He was a fugitive, a wanted man on the run from the authorities in Alabama, lured to the Union Parish countryside by the possibility of finding a … Continue reading The 1879 Lynching of Jackson Overstreet
The Gazette February 15, 1899 Bayou D'Arbonne was frozen across Sunday in numbers of places where the water was several feet deep. The steamer Robinson found much difficulty in getting through the ice. Just below Farmerville warehouse the boat had to back up, there using her wheel to break a way through the ice, which … Continue reading Bayou D’Arbonne Frozen
