Please visit our Upcoming Events Page for information on special events of interest to our area. You may also wish to review the Guardian-Journal Headlines and News Briefs (updated weekly) which contains announcements of interest covering all areas of the parish.
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It was late evening May 3, 1979, when the Pelican Baseball Team lifted Coach Kenneth Hood over their shoulders to celebrate the first baseball State Championship ever won at Homer High...
On May 6, 1979, the memorial marker at Russellville was dedicated by the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, marking the first official seat of government in Claiborne Parish and the site of the first courthouse and jail...
In 1918, Herbert S. Ford's sons brought home two German helmets from the city dump. This became the catalyst that prompted Ford to begin a collection of historical artifacts which are now housed in the Herbert S. Ford Museum....
On Friday, July 30, 1999, the Homer-Mayfield School Reunion kicked off a three-day celebration beginning with a banquet at Homer City Hall. About two hundred former teachers, students, and others gathered...
If you travel just six miles southwest of Homer on the Dutchtown Road you will find what is left of the old homeplace of John Murrell, Sr., the first permanent...
A small group of people met in a log cabin one evening in 1849 to blaze a path for what would later become The First United Methodist Church of Homer, LA. The land where the log cabin stood, where once our forbearers bowed their heads in humble prayer to begin their church, is now 416 East Main Street and has housed at one time Dorman's Blacksmith Shop, the bus station, a flower shop and at present, a meeting place for the Boy Scouts... Claiborne Parish Church Histories
Claiborne Parish was created from Natchitoches Parish by Act No. 42 of the Louisiana General Assembly approved March 13, 1828, and named in honor of the first American governor of Louisiana, William Charles Cole Claiborne...
