West Carroll-East Carroll-Ouachita County Louisiana Archives History .....History Of Carroll Parish December 6, 1934
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West Carroll Gazete

  West Caroll Parish was originally the northest boundary of Ouachita Parish, 
from 1805 to 1832, when it with a part of what is now Richland parish and East 
Earroll parish, then 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 nesled against the beautiful sloping banks of 
Bayou Macon only one hundred and fifty yards qway.  By Act No. 24 of the 
special session 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 transfered January 1917, after the construction of 
a handsome brick building. 
 

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