This Month In Bossier Parish History

 February: Through the Years!

Feb 2:  Happy National Groundhogs Day….is spring on the was or another six weeks of winter?

February 2nd each year brings the most-watched weather forecast of the year—and the only one led by a marmot. Legend has it that on this morning if a groundhog can see its shadow, there will be six more weeks of winter. If it cannot see its shadow, spring is on the way.

                                                      2001.004.001  Touchstone Collection

                                                             06 Feb 1919 Bossier Banner

Feb.4, 1922: Weekly news from 100 years ago

· Lt.Com. F.W. Scanland  [Francis Worth, 1888-1946] writes home from the Submarine  Base in Coco Solo, Canal Zone. 

C.1890’s:  "Our old Benton Home"  
William Henry Scanland (father)  Mrs. Adelaide Abney Scanland (Mother) 
Frank Scanland (about 4 years old)  in front of Scanland house.  0000.005.011

· They said it!  “Plant a tree”

Bossier City Garden Club planting trees at the Bossier Municipal Building

· Student at the Shilo School took the midterm exams

Shiloh School -  Teacher (in door) Mrs. R.P. Rodgers. 2001.025.020 

· The entire New family  except one or two  of the children was ill, friends hoped for their speedy recovery.

C.1920’s: New Family. Back row: Madge Dudney New Johnson, Clifford Oglesby, Nanna Mae New Oglesby, Nathaniel Nixon New, Elizabeth Rebecca Dudney New, and Ella Lee New Powdrill.  Front row: Arthur New, Ruth Marie New Rivers Garrett Carson, and Clifford B. New.

 · Arkana Community: school was closed do to the rain and lateness of train.

1910’s: Passenger train crossing trestle at Plain Dealing, La.  

North of Railroad depot.

 1997.062.037

Feb 20: National Love Your Pet Day!

This holiday focuses on giving extra attention to our pets. The day encourages pampering our pets and focusing on the special relationship pets hold in our lives.

1940: Fabol Powell     1999.131.013

A little girl is riding on the back of a horse, 

next to a house with a wooden porch railing.  2018.038.059

Photograph of beagle puppies.     1997.062.221    

1935: Jack Barnett in Red Land in 1935 with his Radio Flyer Wagon.
 2000.032.008

Feb.27, 1969: A new tool was available for use by builders, industrial and real estate developers, farmers, and etc.  The new map is a Soil Map of Bossier Parish and provides information in forestry for locating suitable sites for building homes, highways and industries. 

Soil Survey Bossier Parish, Louisiana. Includes aerial photos of parish.  Sixty fold-out maps plus a fold-out index to map sheets.

The Reference Book is available at the Bossier Parish Libraries History Center.

Book:

Soil Survey: Bossier Parish, Louisiana.

 

1952-1953 Haughton High School Industrial Arts Department Building and Industrial Arts Class. Jerry Worley is the 3rd student in on the top row right hand side of the photograph

1972: ribbon cutting ceremonies at the GE Plant in Bossier.

General Electric Industrial Apparatus Services

Location: 4274 Meadow Lane Bossier City, La 1998.047.196   

27 Feb 1969 Bossier Banner