Grant's Point, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
Source: Bigraphical and Historical Memoirs, Northwest Louisiana, 1890



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GRANT'S POINT

Grant's Point is the modern name given to the point at the mouth of Cane
River.  Frank Beaudry established a store here in 1865, as successor of the
old ante-bellum French store of Madame Boulard.  Owing to some difficulty with
the people she was driven out.  This action led to a suit against several
persons in Grant Parish, and this suit led to a verdict for $5,000 damages
against Meredith Calhoun.  

Morentine & Calhoun established their store on the Rapides bank of Cane and
Red rivers in June, 1865.  They ewer followed by Morentine & Rachal and L. C.
Serr & Co.  T. Monk Wells, son of J. Madison Wells, located on Natchitoches
bank, opposite Colfax, in May 1883, where he proposed raising sugar cane.  His
store was on the Rapides bank of Cane River.