West Carroll-East Carroll-Ouachita County Louisiana Archives News.....History of Ouachita Parish-Richland- East and West Carroll Parishes December 6, 1934
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West Carroll  Gazette-Oak Grove, La. December 6, 1934
  West Carroll Parish was originally the northeast boundary of Ouachita 
parish, from 1805 to 1832, when it with a part of what is now Richland parish 
and East Carroll 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 nestled against the beautiful sloping banks of 
Bayou Macon only one hundred and fifty yards away.  By the 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 transferred January 1917, after a the 
construction of a handsome brick building.

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