Tensas Parish, Louisiana History
Writings of Josiah P. Scott                         
Submitted by Edith Ziegler, March 2002
Extracted from the Tensas Gazette of 1936
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Walker Tract
     The old Walker Tract, lying south and west of Mound Bayou and 
Waterloo Plantation, for many years a waste of second growth timber, 
purchased a few years ago by McKinney and Trimble, of El Dorado, 
Ark., has been developed into a thriving farming community, and at 
the Tensas River Bridge on the St. Joseph-Winnsboro highway, now 
resembles a small village.  There has been a store on the Franklin 
side of the river at that point for some years, built there by Mr. 
Ed Randall, and now operated by Mr. Keithly Wactor.  Now on the 
Tensas side, McKinney and Trimble have built a gin on the north 
side of the highway, and have ginned between 600 and 700 bales of 
cotton this season.  Across from the gin on the south side of the 
highway, is a company store.  The store is well built, painted 
white, and is furnished with modern display cases, counters and 
fixtures.  The plantation office is in the store which is in charge 
of Mr. Charles Trimble, assisted by Mr. Ellis Murphy, both of 
Arkansas.  Mr. J. W. Butler is in charge of the gin.

     A filling station is to be added to the store in the near 
future.

     On the property, consisting of 1000 or more acres, there are 
this season, approzimately 400 acres of cotton, besides corn land 
and hay.  There are 47 new, freshly painted tenant houses all 
occupied.

     McKinney and Trimble also have purchased Pecan Grove and 
other properties in that section, greatly improved them, and put 
up many new buildings.  Those who remember that section as it was 
a few years ago, can appreciate the changes and improvements 
brought about in a very short time.


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Submitters note: The area in the above written article is now 
open farmland with only a couple of old buildings remaining, 
along with one house and a really old and rusty bridge crossing 
the Tensas River.