Would love to see photos of Enterprise Lumber Company in Rochelle–or at least the sawmill–and learn anything I can about Rochelle, a town that has totally disappeared.

Jayme Berry

Thanks,

Jayme

I do remember that Snookie Dunn was married to T. J. and later to Cliff. My grandparents and parents spent many weekends playing Rook(cards) at their house. Aunt Snookie worked at the post office.

I remember my Dad, Bobby, talking about the old iron bridge and the swimming. Sadly, he passed away when he was only 53 years old, but worked at the mill in Joyce until the time of his death.

I graduated from Winnfield High School in 1975.

Thank you all for the memories!

We know the history. This town was on lumber mill property created by the mill when the mill closed the town was closed. The property is now owned by another lumber company. I don’t think any of these black people were Hebrew.

I am also related to the Atwells and Leggetts and Browns.

How many cemeteries are there in Pollack?

tysm,

Sarah Morrison Ganhs

Sorry it took so long to get back to the site and answer your question. Yes I was on the USS Lofberg from April 1959 – July 1962. I joined the John a Bole in July of 62 and left the Navy in December 62.

My e-mail is bdepriest@cox.net please feel free to contact me directly.

Bill

In order to upload a photo you need to upload it to Imageshack.us and then insert the code they give you for websites into your comment message.

I knew most of the people that lived there during the latter 30’s until probably the latter 40’s.

http://georgetowntullos.blogspot.com/

One of them is a shot taken a few years ago facing downstream toward the “new” 165 bridge.

(note: My blog includes a couple articles Jack Willis sent me that he wrote about your B-I-L’s.)

Please feel free to use, abuse, or lose anything I’ve posted. I’ve taken the liberty of putting a link to this site on both my “images” and “writing” blog.

I remember during the time of one of my illnesses (measles and rhumatism(spelling?)) was when the army was having maneuvers in LA. I could see the highway from my bedroom and I would lay in bed and count the trucks in a convoy as they passed by.

We moved to Jena and then to Shreveport in about 1940. After a bout with Acute Anemia for which the doctor prescribed a “rest cure” with lots of liver (ack!) and hot fudge sundaes (yum!) I was allowed to return to school after missing most of one semester of school in the seventh grade. The doctor had said that I couldn’t go back to school until I weighed 115 pounds. I got to 117 pounds and re-entered school finishing elementary school in Shreveport in 1943.

I have lots of memories of Rochelle and friends (personal and family) there.

Roland Rogers and I were sort-of best friends at that
time and played together quite a lot. Earl Killingsworth
was another friend. Fred Neal and my father went together
and bought a tract or so of timber land in LaSalle Parish
and, I think, in Grant or Winn Parish over toward
Winnfield.

Billy Olden was sort of the town bully (I guess I was the town wimp)I heard that his older brother, “Punkin” had done some time in LTI (Louisiana Training Institute for boys).

Jimmie Guillotte

My web site isn’t about Rochelle, LA nor is it about genealogy but I posted it anyhow since it is my website.
You can take it off and write this off if you like.

Someone was climbing the flag pole and he alsmost made it to the top. It turned out to be HUEY SELLERS.

The Principle of the school was not very happy about it.

Write me and let’s see if you can use any of the infoprmation.

E. Forrest Cook efcook71480@yahoo.com

My father Henry H. Tullos (Red) was born in Rochelle sometimes around 1925. His father was Hardy Tullos. Both are now deceased. I remember my grandfather talking about the rail-road and the dangers of logging around the area. I’m sad that Rochelle is now just a memory. Me and and two of my aunts, Gladys Tullos and Violet visited Tullos a couple of years ago. They were very disoriented since things had changed so much.

Mike Tullos.

Shoe shine just a dime-fifteen cents if you want to give it to me,was another call heard in Rochelle and Tullos.

My grandparents grew up and also worked in Central and North Central Louisiana eventually settling in Pollock. My grandmother’s family did logging work in the Rochelle area when she was young. Do any of you remember Bertha Wheat Thornberg or Eugene “Tony” Thornberg? My grandmother had several brothers but I can only remember Herschel Wheat. She also had a brother who is buried in a cemetary near Rochelle. He had been killed in a bar fight. I don’t know much about either of their younger lives and would love to know if any of you knew them or anything about them or their families. My granddad took me and my siblings to Rochelle several times when I was a teenager and showed us where everything used to be. It was hard for me to imagine this place with nothing but grown up weeds and a few old building foundations was once a thriving community. It is ashamed all of the history that we let slip away.

Joe May

Joe May

April 18, 2006 at Wake for Betty Jean Sykes Morris
Hornet is 84 years old at this time. His Dad lived to be about 92 and told him some of these facts.

Hornet told me the following:
1. Fire in 1906, burned mill, they moved the houses from the white section to the Black section and built new houses in the white section. The photo of the hardwood mill and lumber stacks show about 100 houses in the black section. The town later developed 2.5”fire hydrants and buildings at the corners of the streets with long fire hoses for fighting fire. Volunteer members were recruited from the work force. Hornet was one of these volunteers.
2. Built several new houses in 1928 in the area of the Bouregois house. The Ezells, Leo and Louise, Albert and Zelma, lived in this house in the early 1940s.
3. Rochelle was named after a Doctor by that name.
4. Railroad trestle fire in 1928 and they rebuilt the trussel. Old pilings can be seen under the present trussel.
5. Town at one time was called “Head of Little River.”
6. Distilled water was made in boilers. Lake was called “Water Lake” and later”Nigger Lake.”
7. Water was pumped from the river around the old T & G trestle, when it couldn’t be taken from the lake, to the yards for watering gardens, animals and for fire. A floating pump house enclosed the huge pump that took water from the river. “DC current” was generated at the mill and not only ran this pump but provided electricity to the whole town. Street lights and lights in the houses was included with this DC current. Yard hydrants had tremendous pressure and when turned on the water would come out in a strong stream.
8. Old railroad track that wound around the hardwood mill stacks went on and crossed the Little River and to the L & A. Train on track can be seen in Hardwood Mill Photo.
9. Trains ran together at Zenoria and killed 3 or 4 men. One smaller engine ran up under the larger one. Hornet saw a man hanging between the tinder box and the cab engine. He was black from grease, oil and fire.
10. He worked in the electrical area and was told he was to be cut 5 cents/ hr. and he told Mr. Bennett that they could cut the man taking his place, that he was going back into the service. He married a girl from Florida.
11. Train wreck at Rochelle Hardwood crossing happened in 194?. “Son” Evans was the driver of the taxi and Bunt King, and a 3 year old son of the Taxi driver were killed. They were taking the Black lady cook home from work at Tullos café, had let her out and was coming back across the tracks. A Black man with a cast on his leg was in the back seat and was not injured. The car was carried to the little metal house on the tracks.
12. Hornet went to school in Rochelle through 9th grade, that is all they had there, then went to Selma for the 10th and 11th grades. No 12th grade then.
13. They had a round house where the trains were turned around.
14. Log trucks went behind the ice house and next to the pine mill and to the inclined board area where logs were dumped into the mill pond.
15. Fire in 1906 was caused by opened fires used by workers to see how to work at night.
16. “Blind Tiger bar” was behind the hotel and down the street. They had one across the river and through the railroad trussel and on the hidge past the trussel.

Joe May