Bank of Winnfield & Law Office of Huey P. Long

Huey Long never graduated from high school. He sold goods across the Southwest, spent a short time at the University of Oklahoma, then entered Tulane's law school as a special student and passed the bar in 1915, opening this office upstairs. Three years later he won a seat on the Louisiana Railroad Commission, renamed the Public Service Commission in 1921. He lost the governor's race in 1924 and won it in 1928, and his oil-tax proposals led to an impeachment attempt in 1929 that he survived. The road to all of it started above a bank.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cane River Creole National Historical Park — 28 mi
  Oakland and Magnolia, two Cane River cotton plantations kept as they stood, told through the enslaved families who worked them, the 1864 and 1804 freedom seekers and the tenant farmers who stayed into the 1960s.
• Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site — 29 mi
  A reconstruction of the 1716 French fort beside the Natchitoches village, with a palisade of nearly 2,000 pine logs, a chapel and storeroom, and living-history programs, open Wednesday to Sunday.
• Natchitoches Historic District — 29 mi
  The riverfront blocks of the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase, founded in 1714 at a Natchitoches village, with a brick-paved Front Street, Cane River frontage and the largest bousillage construction in the South.
• Melrose Plantation — 30 mi
  The Cane River estate built on land granted to Louis Metoyer, son of Marie Thérèse Coincoin, with the Yucca House and African House, later an artists' retreat; guided tours Thursday to Sunday.

More markers nearby

• Huey Pierce Long — steps away
• Earl Kemp Long — 0.4 mi
• Long Home Site — 0.4 mi
• Gum Springs Bombing Range Accident Memorial — 8.7 mi