Madison Parish, Louisiana
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Agriculture, USDA Lab and Cotton Dusting— Duckport & Shirley Plantations 1910-1930
Baptizing — Tallulah - Brushy Bayou, circa 1920-30
Buildings — Tallulah
Cotton Carnival 1948 — Tallulah
Floods
Ivory-billed Woodpecker
La Delta Project— Thomastown
Miscellaneous
Tallulah Centennial-1957

Agriculture, USDA Lab and Cotton Dusting — Duckport & Shirley Plantations 1910-1930

1st Tractor in Madison Parish 1919 Early Cotton Sprayer Dusting by Hand Dusting With Mules 1925 Several Dusting Types Dusting Near Airport Huff-Daland Duster

Huff-Daland Wreck Tallulah Airport-Original Planes Tallulah Airport Huff-Daland Crew Joe Holly & R. G. Long 1925 USDA Field Staff 1925 USDA Lab Staff

Test Flight Loading Test Flights Dusting Huff-Daland in Museum Huff-Daland Fleet 1922 AR Businessmen Visit 1930 bug catcher WWII Refueling Stop

1931 Pilots - Payne & Yeates 1931 Tallulah Airport

Baptizing — Tallulah - Brushy Bayou, circa 1920-30

Baptizings under Tallulah Johnson Street Bridge

Buildings — Tallulah

Courthouse about 1890 Courthouse about 1910 Tallulah Opera House Commercial Hotel 1930 Tallulah Airport 1931

Early 1900's Double Panoramic View

1930s First Methodist Church 1930s Madison National Bank Johnny Land's Cafe 1930's 1930s Bear Lake Club

Tallulah Motor Company's showing of 1930 Ford 1930's Chicago Mill

1930's Sam Scurria Saloon 1930's Scurria Grocery & Ellis 5 & 10 1930's Phillip J. Scurria Grocery Sam Scurria Grocery 1935 Courthouse 1935

Old Tallulah Community Club 1936 Tallulah Jail 1936 Tallulah Grammar School 1936 Waverly School 1936 Waverly School 1937

Courthouse 1938 Sam Scurria Grocery 1940 Library Dedication 1945 Madison Shoe Hospital 1947

Cotton Carnival 1948 — Tallulah

Band Crowd Float 1 Float 2 Float 3 Float 4

Float 5 Float 6 More Floats

More Floats

Floods Click Here

Ivory-billed Woodpecker

The last confirmed sighting of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker was in Madison Parish on the Singer Tract (now the Tensas National Wildlife Refuge) in 1944. In 2004 there was a disputed sighting in Arkansas which was probably a Pileated Woodpecker -- often mistaken for the Ivory-billed.

These photos were taken by Dr. James T. Tanner during the period 1935-1939 and are linked to the website of the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service.

Nestling ivory-billed woodpecker and J. J. Kuhn, March 6, 1938

James T. Tanner standing next to a big honey locust near Methiglum Bayou, May 1935

Paul Kellogg and J. J. Kuhn when sound recording of ivory-billed woodpecker was being made, April 1935

Temporary camp on Indian Lake

Ivory-billed woodpecker pair changing at nest, April 1935

Ivory-billed woodpecker pair changing at nest, April 1935. Enlargement

Dead hackberry fed upon by ivory-billed woodpeckers, June 1937

Dead limb scaled of bark by ivory-billed woodpeckers, June 1937

Cyprus at end of Rainey Lake, March 1940

Female ivory-billed woodpecker at nest in red maple, April 1935

Female ivory-billed woodpecker at nest in red maple, April 1935. Enlargement

Male ivory-billed woodpecker at nest in red maple, April 1935 (1)

Male ivory-billed woodpecker at nest in red maple, April 1935 (1). Enlargement.

Ash tree with ivory-billed woodpecker roosting holes, June 1937

Male ivory-billed woodpecker at nest in red maple, April 1935 (2)

Ivory-billed woodpecker nest tree, Nuttall's Oak, April 1939

Tensas River, July 1937

Dead-top gum with ivory-billed woodpecker feeding sign, May 1937

La Delta Project — Thomastown

These scenes of the Farm Security Administration’s La Delta Project near Thomastown were taken by noted photographer Marion Post Wolcott (1910-1990) in May and June 1940. All photos are from the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection. The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was created in the Department of Agriculture in 1937. The FSA and its predecessor, the Resettlement Administration (RA), were New Deal programs designed to assist poor farmers during the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression.

Canning Squash Disking Fertilizing Home Demonstration Group New Barn New Chicken House New Gin

New Homes New House vs. Old New School Typical Old House Old Slave House Old Slave House Close-up Picking up Threshed Oats

School Smoke House TB Isolation House Teacherage

Miscellaneous

Belle of the Bend 1903 Tallulah Phone Book 1915 Tallulah Orchestra German Air Force Plane* 1922 Car-Train Wreck 1920's Boll Weevil Speech
*In the early 1920’s this plane landed across the bayou from what is now Tallulah High School so the pilot could walk to town and get something to eat.

1925 Baseball Team 1930s American Legion Post 100 1930s Bear Lake Lilies 1930s Building Road to Logging Camp 1930s Logging Camp

1930s Circus Parade 1930s Courthouse Gathering 1930's Delta-Vicksburg Ferry 1930s Guenard-Lucas Drug 1930s Highway 80 1930s Naylor Service Station

1930s Picking Cotton 1930s Red Cross Ladies 1930s Roscoe Turner in Tallulah 1930s Tallulah 1930s Tallulah Businessmen

1930s Tallulah Still 1930s Wagon & Mules 1931 Boy Scouts 1935 Deer Hunt 1935 Law enforcement Group

Governor Leche & Judge Snyder 1935 Longtime Sheriff A. J. Sevier Jim Vaughn's First plane Ride

1937 Snow Bayou in Front of Coltharp Home 1937 Tallulah Snow Scenes (Photos by Cecil Smith)

More Scenes from 1937 Tallulah Snow 1945 Sam Scurria Family 1948 Baptist Brotherhood 1948 Baptist Groundbreaking 1949 Trinity Episcopal Church Vestry