West Carroll-East Carroll-Plaquemines County Louisiana Archives News.....News November 6, 1934
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West Carroll Gazette-Oak Grove, La. November 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 "ghost" town --on Macon 
only one hundred and fifty yards away, by th Act No. 24 of the special session 
of the lieislature 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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