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Family & Local History Virtual Programs

Watch recorded virtual programs led by Genealogy and Special Collections staff, like 100 Years of Local Women's Suffrage, Pandemics & Epidemics in Louisiana and more.

Historic Hasley: Secrets from the Grave

Historic Hasley Cemetery Tour

Image from the Hasley Cemetery Tour Brochure
    

Click on the link above to access the Historic Hasley: Secrets from the Grave website. The Ouachita Parish Public Library received a Rebirth grant in the fall of 2020 to create this virtual self-guided tour of West Monroe's Hasley Cemetery. Funds were part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act economic stabilization plan and were provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Union Pacific Foundation and the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Print copies of the brochure are available at all library branches. The tour provides information on the cemetery, the earliest known gravesites, monument composition and care and videos with biographical information on a few of the men and women buried there who contributed to Ouachita Parish History.  

Ouachita Parish Public Library 100th Anniversary

Ouachita Parish Public Library Anniversary Video

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