Madison Parish, Louisiana
Photos of Historic Interest: Floods

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Last Updated February 9, 2009

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1897 Flood
               
T. P. Kell Home on Point Clear Plantation    Point Clear Plantation Near New Carthage

1912 Flood

Downtown Tallulah

1927 Flood
Most of these pictures were taken by Haw Kirkpatrick and Perry Glick of the USDA Experiment station in Tallulah. However, many of them were taken by Clarence Bryan Foster, and Bea Neill supplied some. The pictures are listed, as nearly as possible, in chronological order.

  
        Louisiana Flood Map       Madison Parish Detail    

  
May  1927 Tallulah Panorama

            
            Alligator                        4/28 Filling Sand Bags Near Duckport       Sandbagging Levee            4/28 Quarter boat Near Duckport

     
      5/5 Bloom Drug         5/5 First Water Arrives in Tallulah     5/5 North Cedar St.            5/5 East Side of Courthouse

     
 5/7 East Side of Courthouse   5/7 Ziegler-Darrow Hardware   5/8 Guenard Lucas Drug   5/10 Claughton & Sevier Houses

     
Hwys 65 & 80 Tallulah                Downtown Tallulah                        Piggly-Wiggly                            Post Inn Hotel

     
         Post Inn Hotel                           5/10 Kell Home                  5/10 Illinois Central RR             Life on the Railroad

   
  Illinois Central RR           Working on Railroad            First Train into Tallulah            Northwest Tallulah

     
5/10 Highway 80 at Thomastown 5/10 Yerger Home at Mound        Tallulah Church                    Downtown Tallulah

     
   Foster Home on Brushy Bayou            Piggly-Wiggly                    5/12 D. H. Allen Store       5/12 Looking Down Bayou From RR

     
5/15 Old Bloom Drug        5/12 East Side of Courthouse    5/12  Front of Courthouse            5/12 Old Max Levy

     
5/12 Old Tallulah St Bank                TSB From Air                 TSB & Courthouse from air           5/12 North Tallulah

     
5/14 Cor. Depot & Julia Sts.        Tallulah Fairgrounds                    McCaffery Hotel                    Red Cross Station

     
      5/15 Brushy Bayou                5/15 B. R. Coad House                   5/15 Courthouse                      5/15 Scott Airport     

     
            Scott Airport              5/17 Autos stored on RR ROW  5/17 First Baptist Church    5/17 N from First Baptist Church

     
      5/17 Cason Home               5/17 Furniture on Top House        5/17 Dr. Gaines Home          5/17 Mailbox on RR Track

     
    5/17 North Tallulah                  5/17 North Tallulah                5/17 Northeast Tallulah        5/17 Northwest Tallulah

     
      5/17 Tallulah South            5/17 Tallulah Southeast            5/17 Red Cross Kitchen         5/17 Tallulah Grammar School

     
5/17 THS Under Construction  5/18 Cabin Teele Crevasse        Cabin Teele Crevasse            5/18 Repairing Levee

     
         5/18 Tent City                            Levee Camp                            5/19 Red Cross Boat                5/19 Devine Home

     
6/5 Dr. Gaines Making a Call          6/6 Scurria Store            7/4 Refugees at Red Cross          Levee on Green Street

     
7/21 Cracked Soil After Flood  7/22 Houses After Flood           Public Road After Flood            7/27 High Watermarks

   
8/3 Lake-Cabin Teele Crevasse 9/30 Clothing for Refugees  9/30 Tallulah Orchestra