Photo: Captain W.P. Powers, Franklin Parish, La. 
Submitted by: DeWanna Lindo
July 2001



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The first school in the community of Crowville was held 
in the Hurricane Bayou Church, which was built in 1870. 
There were twenty-five students taught by Captain W.P. Powers. 
Captain W.P. Powers was born in Canada and came south during 
the Civil War to fight for the Confederacy. 
After the war Captain Powers remained in Louisiana and in 
Franklin Parish. He taught school, became the proprietor of 
The Franklin Sun news-paper, and for a short time was the 
postmaster in Winnsboro.