Morehouse Health Unit Marks First Year Of Service
The Morehouse parish health unit led by Dr. John W. Williams celebrates a year of public health work in Bastrop and Morehouse parish. A free clinic treated many children. inspections, malaria and hookworm tests, and extensive literature and lectures supported disease prevention and sanitation improvements across the parish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morehouse Parish
Bastrop
Louisiana
John W. Williams
Health Department
Robert B. Briscoe
J. E. Matthews
Wm. Maconchy
J. L. Wright
Reynolds Trippet
Isaac T. Naff
George W. Naff
Bastrop and Morehouse Parish
Early Days of Morehouse Parish History Recalled
The Bastrop area story covers 1844 parish incorporation, Baron de Bastrop’s land contracts, Abram Morehouse and Josiah Davenport aiding settlement, and a trek of enslaved people to Monroe. It notes initial settlements near Mer Rouge, Choctaw territory, and early homesteads establishing Morehouse Parish history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abram Morehouse
Mer Rouge
Morehouse
Ouachita
Monroe
Bastrop
Baron de Bastrop
Sylvester G. Parsons
Natchez
Harrisonburg
Columbia
Prairie Met Rouge
Prairie Jefferson
Morehouse Parish
Parish of
Louisiana
Union
State of
Spain
Ouachita River
Kentucky
New Orleans
Josiah Davenport
Providence
Rhode Island
Davenport
Africa
Mr. Morehouse
Mississippi
Coventry
Bayou Bartholomew
Beouf
Captain Davenport
James Barlow
Elizabeth
Lucretia
Amanda
Polly
Oak Ridge
Point Pleasant
Bartholomew
Lind Grove
Second Ward
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Andrew J. Hunter
Augustus H. Stevens
Aaron Livingston
Rolfe
J. S. Rolfe
John R. B. Jones
Tersville
Arkansas Hne
Bonnidee
Enoch L
William A
Burton Daniel
Tennessee
Union Parish
Prairie Mer Rouge
John R. Temple
W. A. Doles
A. B. C. Winfrey
Thos. N. Barham
William McFee
Archibald McIver
Andrew B. _Clark
Washington F. Brown
C. J. Goodwin
Goodwin
International Paper Company Mills
General Forestry Governing Board
Bastrop Mills
Factory ‘Forestry
Factory Forestry
Ir. Electriciano
Enor
Southland
North
GEO. T. Madison
W. B. Gladney
H. Webb Madison
L. L. Phillips
T. Cashier
C. N. Dalton
J. T. Dalton, Jr
John 8
Fox
RB. Gatlin
S. Alvin Leopold
James Madison
G. W. Naff
W. T. Smith
Chas. Snyder
F. A. Terzia
J. B. Tisdale
Bastrop State Bank &Trust Co
Bastrop and Bonita
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