INDUSTRY, WINN PARISH, LOUISIANA
Submitted by: Annette (Carpenter) Womack
of Winnfield, Winn Parish, LA
January 1998
(Spelling was retained as in document)

BIOGRAPHICAL & HISTORICAL 
MEMOIRS OF NORTHWEST LOUISIANA

COMPRISING A LARGE FUND OF BIOGRAPHY OF ACTUAL 
RESIDENTS, AND AN INTERESTING HISTORICAL SKETCH 
OF THIRTEEN COUNTIES --ILLUSTRATED--
Nashville and Chicago: The Southern Publishing Company (C) 1890
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INDUSTRY

Agricultural Associations found a permanent home in Winn Parish early in 
the seventies.  The Grange, then established here, has been carried down 
to the present time.
  
Silver Steel Grange of Gansville, was organized in 1874, and is still in
existence.  The old grange, at Gaar's Mill joined the modern Alliance.  So
strong was The Winnfield representation in the State during the year 1883,
that the State Grange met at Gaar's Mill in 1883, and at St. Maurice in 1884.

The Winn Parish Farmers' Union was chartered November 28, 1888, the directors
being R. L. Tannehill, W. A. Smith, S. R. Newsom, J. H. Crawford.  H. C.
Mixon.  H. L. Brian and J. B. Wood.  This is now a powerful organization,
politically and commercially.

Winnfield is contemporary with the parish; for here the seat of justice was
established, when the parish was organized.  The town is in the midst of one
of the greatest pine forests of the continent but immediately surrounding it
are some good plantations, while tributary to it are a few large and
prosperous agricultural sections.

Early in the last decade Robert E. Milling established his grist mill and
cotton gin.  In the fall of 1883, R. C. Tannehill purchased this industry and
made additions thereto.

...Continued with part 10: Social Organizations