West Carroll-East Carroll-Ouachita County Louisiana Archives History .....Courthouse Of Carroll Parish, La.  November 6, 1934
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  West Caroll parish was orginally the northest boundary of Ouachita Parish, 
from 1805 to 1832, when it, with a part of Concordia, were set aside as 
Carroll Parish, named in honor of General William Carroll, one of the heroes 
of the Battle of New Orleans, 1815 and governor of Tennessee in 1832
  The first courthouse of Carroll Parish was located at Floyd--1832 prior and 
just after the Civil War a thriving town- now only a deserted village, 
or "ghost town"- on Macon Ridge nestled against the beautiful sloping banks of 
Bayou Macon only one hundred and fifty yards away.  By the Act No. 24 of the 
special seeion of the legislature of 1877.  Carroll Parish was divided into 
East and West Carroll, the Bayou Macon separating them, with Floyd the parish 
seat of West Carroll until an election was held July 3rd, 1915, under act of 
the legislature, being Act No. 255 of 1912, and the parish seat was moved to 
Oak Grove the records being transferred Jan. 1917, after the construction of a 
handsome brick building. 

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