Published by the Historical Association of Central Louisiana with the help of Kisatchie-Delta Economic Development District Council and the Louisiana American Revolution Bicentennial Commission.

Copyright 1976 by Sue Eakin
This book, or parts thereof, must not be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission.
Reproduced on the Rapides Parish, Louisiana USGenWeb page with permission from the author.

• Preface
  
• Indians
  
• Geography
  
• Section I - The Colonial Period
  • Poste du Rapides
  • The Subdivision of Rapides
• Section II - The Ante Bellum Period, 1804-1861
  • Devolopment of Alexandria-Pineville Trade Center
  • County Officials Named in 1805
  • Creation of Rapides Parish
  • Rapides Parish in 1812
  • Water Transportation
  • Agriculture
  • The Plantation System
  • The Island
  • Cheneyville a Parish Seat?
  • Slavery
  • Upland Retreats
  • Lecomte
  • The Famous Sandbar Duel
  • Newspapers
  • Religion
    • Earliest Missionaries
    • Episcopal Church
    • Early Baptists
    • Churches of Blacks
    • The Campbellites
    • Methodists
    • Other Denominations
    • Jewish
  • Education
  • Louisiana State Seminary
  • The Courts
    • Governor Joseph Marshall Walker (1786-1856)
  • The Golden Years
  • Alexandria-Pineville
  • Rapides in the Military
  • The Approach of Civil War
• Section III - The Civil War, 1861-1865
  
• Section IV - Reconstruction, 1865-1900
  
• Section V - The Bourbons, 1900-1928
  • Hill Country
• The Lumber Industry and Forestry
  
• Floods
  
• World War I
  
• Camp Beauregard
  
• Bibliography