Town
of Mooringsport's
Town
Hall & Police Building
122 Croom Street
Downtown
(Rased 2011)
113 Croom Street
Old United
State Post Office
Croom Street - Downtown
From
Left to Right:
Brooks Clothing (Rased)
Bank of Mooringsport
Harrison Dry Cleaners (Rased)
Croom Street - Downtown
Mooringsport
Junior-High School
(Now Mooringsport Elementary)
602 Latimer Street
(1911 - 1927)
Boy
& Girl Scout Hut
LA Hwy 169
Mooringsport's
Mini Museum
Croom Street
Downtown
First Baptist
Church
500 Ivy Street
(1949)
The Mooringsport
United Methodist Church
221 Lake Street near Downtown
(1945)
The Historic
Masonic Lodge
"Blue Lodge"
Downtown - Croom Street
Built in 1916, Mr Edward F. Neild, Sr. of Shreveport was the architect and it reflects the Greek Revival Style. Lodge No. 342 F. & A.M. was instituted on February 7, 1911 with twenty-seven charter members.
Doyle Home
407 Lake Street
(Relocated to Elm Grove, La.)
(replaced in Mid 1990's)
Downtown looking east towards the railroad
Old Mooringsport Road (LA Hwy 538) North of Caddo Lake
February 1926
Pre 1914 Post Card of the Caddo Oil Field.
Appears to be the current site of
AEP Southernwestern Electric Power Company's Lieberman Power Plant
at Mooringsport
C. S. Croom Store Letterhead
circa 1896
Nine Injured When Launch Is Blown Up
Special to
The News.
Shreveport, La., Dec. 12. – Nine men were severely burned, none
fatally, when the engine in the Gulf Refining Company’s launch,
The Gulf Special, exploded at the wharf at Mooringsport, according to
a message received here.
The explosion, its cause undetermined, occurred just after eighteen employes (sic) of the company had boarded the launch for a trip about Caddo Lake where the men employed on various projects were to be left at their work.
A negro, Robert FISHER, said to have been the pilot, was blown into the water and painfully burned. The remainder of the injured are white men.
Joe LEWIS of Mooringsport was among the most severely injured. Others injured were Robert NELSON, Sox BONHAM, Charley BRASSIE and Big Boy EASON, all white men.
All eleven men leaped into the lake after the explosion, witnesses said, having a narrow escape from serious injury. The boat was destroyed by flames as a result of the explosion with a loss estimated at $2,500.
Dallas Morning News, Dallas, TX 13 Dec 1927
YOU KNOW YOU LIVE IN A SMALL TOWN, WHEN:
Third street is on the edge of town.
You dial a wrong number and talk for 15 minutes anyway.
You are run off Main Street by a combine.
You write a check on the wrong bank and it covers it for you.
The pickups on MainStreet outnumber the cars three to one.
You miss a Sunday at church and receive get-well cards.
You don't use your turn signal because everyone knows where you're going.
You were born on June 13 and your family received gifts from the local merchants because you are the first baby of the year.
You can't walk for exercise because every car that passes offers you a ride.
You drive into the ditch five miles out of town and the word gets back into town before you do.
When a letter is addressed with your first name and the name of the town and nothing else, and it is delivered.
You move in and you are no longer a stranger after ten minutes, but you're still a newcomer after twenty years.
Your banker will stop and pick up your bank deposit at your home.
When your child oversleeps, and the principal of the school goes to your house and wakes them up.
TOP
10 REASONS TO LIVE IN A SMALL TOWN
10. If you tend to lose your car keys, you can leave them in your car.
9. No one cares what you drive, or what you do for a living, as long as it's honest.
8. The internet is finally here.
7. Those sirens that remind you when it's 8am, noon, or 7 pm on the first Monday of the month; or your football team just won state championship, etc., etc., etc...
6. Anonymous bags of sweetcorn. And tomatoes. And zucchinni...
5. You can pay your home off in your lifetime.
4. You can afford car insurance for your teenagers.
3. You can see the stars. All the stars. Even the little ones.
2. People are important. All the people. Even the little ones.
And the No.1 REASON for living in a small town:
One word: NEIGHBORS