Bossier Parish Libraries History Center

 In February of 1851, a tornado decimated the east-central Bossier Parish village of Bellevue. Sometimes spelled “Belle Vue,” this tiny, rem...

 In February of 1851, a tornado decimated the east-central Bossier Parish village of Bellevue and terrified its residents and visitors. This...

Lucas Gusher, Spindletop Hill, Texas, 1901   Did you know that Louisiana is among the top ten producers of crude oil in the United States? T...

Alexander Graham Bell is best known for inventing the telephone. The fact of the matter is that he was not the first to invent the telephone...

Louisiana legislature carved Bossier Parish out of Claiborne Parish on February 24, 1843, fixing its boundary roughly from Red River to Dorc...

The Bossier Banner published the following in its October 1, 1936 issue. “One of the Banner’s old-time friends and a constant subscriber i...

New Courthouse located in Benton, built 1893. BPLHC Collection; 0000.001.011 The April 27, 1882 issue of the Bossier Banner reported tha...

Lambert William Baker was born in North Carolina in 1818. In 1844, he married Martha Allen in Walker County, Alabama. Their first daug...

The O'Neal Store at Bellevue 1900's-1910's In her latest column for the Bossier Press Tribune, “ The Bossier Parish Boy wh...

The History Center has a wonderful collection of early 1900s photographs taken by Mabel Abney Scanland Jones. Mabel is the daughter of Will...