The Ouachita Telegraph - Mrs. Porterfield's Hotel Destroyed by Fire
Date: Oct. 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>
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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, December 10, 1880
Page 2, Column 1

        The hotel in Delta kept by Mrs. Porterfield, was destroyed by fire
on the night of the 6th inst., with all the furniture therein.  A stranger,
stopping at the hotel and supposed to be on his way to Monroe, perished in
the flames.

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