Tensas Parish History
Submitted to the USGENWEB Archives Project by 
Edith Ziegler JAN 2001

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Newspapers, Tensas Parish LA

Tensas has had its own newspaper since 1852.  
   The Tensas Gazette is the second oldest newspaper in Louisiana and 
one of the oldest in the United States.  Except for the Civil War years,
the newspaper has been in continuous publication since it was established. 
   There has been one name change. After the Civil War the paper fell into
the hands of "carpetbaggers," and the name was changed to the North Louisiana
Journal. The paper was published under that masthead until 1886, when it 
was renamed The Tensas Gazette.
   One of the newspaper's editors, Josiah P. Scott, left an enviable record. 
He held the title of editor and publisher for fifty-nine years,from 1894 
to 1953, and he never missed an issue, even during the three big floods 
that happened during his tenure in 1912, 1916 and 1927.

   The above copied from The Tensas Story, with permission of the authors
Mary Alice Fontenot and Edith Ziegler.