This road was the center of Holmesville village from 1837 to 1881. Holmesville Road extends for approximately seven/tenths of a mile along Bayou Boeuf and connects with both Louisiana Highways (above) in Southwestern Avoyelles Parish. ” For more information about Holmesville, visit LaFleur’s website,. “This is the meaning of ‘Holmesville Road. “The name provides great relevance and geographical clarity to the history of this immediate area” he said. LaFleur said his “hat is off to the Avoyelles Parish Police Jury” for returning the name Holmesville to current use. “Thus, the name ‘Holmesville’ became forever stuck in my memory.”
“Sally often mentioned the name Holmesville, and said that was the name of the old village that used to exist at the very place where we were fishing.” LaFleur said. He learned the name “Holmesville” from Sally Sheppard Keller, an elderly neighbor he would talk to when they were both fishing on the bayou. “This was the location of the place where the last major turnaround point existed for large boats that navigated Bayou Boeuf to Bayou Courtableau.” Directly in front of our large unpainted home, Bayou Boeuf had a large increase in its width,” he said. The house was located behind eight giant cedar trees facing Bayou Boeuf and right in the middle of a 20-acre tract his father farmed. “We lived where Bayou Watermelon and Bayou Boeuf meet – in a 100-year-old unpainted cypress wood house built by Patrick Glaze in 1834,” he said. LaFleur is familiar with the Holmesville area because he grew up there. The Sid Richardson Oil Company and Amerada Petroleum Corporation built housing camps along Bayou Bouef at both ends of Holmesville Road in 1939-1940, LaFleur said. Oil production in the area began in 1939 with the “Discovery well,” which was drilled on the site of the former Holmesville community. He was a good man and enjoyed a good reputation among his race.” There were 15 buck-shots which took effect, breaking his neck and nearly blowing his head off. When he set his shotgun down “the hammer came in contact with the floor and it discharged, the contents lodged under his chin. 24, 1881, the Marksville Bulletin reported that a man who had been hunting stopped by the J. When the overcrowded handcar hit a cattle-gap, Clark fell off and was run over by the car. On September 3, 1881, it was reported that James Clark, a foreman on the Morgan railroad, fell off a handcar between Washington and Holmesville and was killed. Soon all of its inhabitants moved closer to the railroad, and this began Eola.Ī community’s history is also about individual tragedies. “When the Southern Pacific went through this section of Avoyelles Parish near Eola in 1881`, Holmesvillle was left a mile from the railroad. “Railroads nearly always make a radical change in a community,” LaFleur said. Hudson was also a member of the Louisiana Legislature, serving from 1884-1888 and then again from 1896-1900, he added. Hudson became the last postmaster at Holmesville and the first postmaster at Eola when the post office was moved to be near the newly constructed Morgan’s Louisiana &Texas Railroad.” LaFleur noted. Owens was elected president of the Louisiana State Medical Society in 1888. He married Alice Winn, the daughter of another leading physician, Dr. to Holmesville in 1877 and became known as one of the state’s best surgeons. One of Holmesville’s distinguished residents was Dr.
It is reported the Yankees are burning everything on their retreat, driving the women and children out of their houses.” While sitting on the back steps, she heard “the booming of cannons in the direction of Alexandria. He said Gold Dust resident Teresa Milburn wrote in her diary of that she was visiting in Holmesville. “In April 1804, 20,000 Union soldiers marched on the road through Holmesville during the Red River Campaign, from New Orleans to Bayou Teche to Washington, along Bayou Boeuf to Holmesville, Alexandria and Shreveport,” LaFleur said. Northup was a slave of Edwin Epps who lived about four miles upstream on Bayou Boeuf from Holmesville. Mary’s Parish as caterpillars almost totally destroyed the cotton crop throughout the region and there was little to be done, as noted in Solomon Northup’s book, 12 Years a Slave,” LaFleur said. “In 1845, 147 slaves departed Holmesville for Tuckapaw in St. LaFleur noted that the history of Holmesville includes several interesting incidents.
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