A Place to Remember, East Carroll Parish, Louisiana 1832-1976
Historic East Carroll Parish, Louisiana is located along the Mississippi River in central Louisiana. This 1977 volume thoroughly researched all available resources to include information on Early Settlers, Indians & Poverty Point, Lake Providence, Businesses, Family Groups, Churches, Hospitals, Courts, Schools, Societies, Steamboats, Plantations, and trials of war at nearby Vicksburg.
"... Stack Island was famed in 1800 for a band of counterfeiters, horse thieves, robbers, & murderers who made this part of the Mississippi River a place of manufacture. From hence they would sally forth, stop boats, buy horses, flour, & whiskey, and pay for all in fine new notes. Their villanies became notorious..."
"1883 ... The pleasant round of dances, interspersed with refreshments, chased the flying hours of the night. The Doctor is known to be an inveterate enemy of congestion, so as a safeguard before the last good-nights were said, he poured out for each a generous libation of champagne which sent them out into the cold night air rejoicing homeward."