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

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

1st Tractor in Madison Parish Dusting by Hand Dusting With Mules Several Types of Dusters

Dusting Near Airport Huff-Daland Duster Huff-Daland Fleet Huff-Daland Wreck

USDA Staff - Tallulah Lab Test Flight Loading Test Flights Dusting

Baptizing — Tallulah - Brushy Bayou, circa 1920-30

Baptizing - Tallulah Johnson Street Bridge

Buildings — Tallulah

Courthouse about 1890 Courthouse about 1910 Courthouse 1938 Old Tallulah Community Club 1936 Tallulah-Early 1900's Double Panoramic View

Tallulah Jail 1936       Johnny Land's Cafe 1930's                       Library Dedication 1945                        Madison Shoe Hospital 1947


Phillip J. Scurria Grocery 1930's             Scurria Grocery & Ellis 5 & 10 Early 1930's          Sam Scurria Grocery 1935          Sam Scurria Grocery 1940

Tallulah Motor Company's showing of 1930 Ford

Tallulah Grammar School 1936 Waverly School 1936 Waverly School 1937

Cotton Carnival 1948 — Tallulah

Band Crowd Float 1 Float 2

Float 3 Float 4 Float 5 Float 6

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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

Cypress 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)

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

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 1920's Boll Weevil Speech 1935 Deer Hunt 1930's Delta-Vicksburg Ferry

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German Air Force Plane* Governor Leche & Judge Snyder 1935 Law enforcement Grp Jim Vaughn's First plane Ride 1915 Tallulah Orchestra

Scenes from 1937 snow in Tallulah Sam Scurria Family-1945 1948 Baptist Brotherhood 1948 Baptist Groundbreaking
*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.