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Union Parish

Union Parish

Barron, W. Gene

Paperback

Series: Images of America

General World HistoryRegional: SouthSouth

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 073859167X
ISBN13: 9780738591674
Publisher: Arcadia Pub (Sc)
Published: Apr 30 2012
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

Discover the rich heritage and history of Union Parish, Louisiana as preserved by local author W. Gene Barron.

In the late 1830s, prominent local settlers Peter J. Harvey, John Taylor, Col. Matthew Wood, Philip Feazle, Daniel Payne, Stephen Colvin, and Mills Farmer of upper Ouachita Parish Wiley Underwood petitioned the Louisiana Legislature for the creation of a new parish. Created by the legislature on May 13, 1839, it was given the name Union, supposedly because Daniel Webster stated, Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable. By the 1850s, settlers streamed into the parish from Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Most came by steamboat, landing at a point on the Ouachita River, which became known as the Alabama Landing since many Alabamians arrived there. Agriculture always dominated the Union Parish economy, evolving from cotton and corn in the 1840s to the 1950s to cattle, timber, and poultry today

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