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Adolphe Lafargue, born in Orthez in the French Pyrenees in 1818, spent his working life as a teacher turned editor. He taught in Natchitoches Parish and at Jefferson College, then became Avoyelles superintendent of schools and founded Marksville High School. When the editor of the Avoyelles Pelican died in 1861, he took over that paper and tried to keep it out of partisan feuds. Wartime shortages cut it from four pages to two in October 1862, and by 1863 it was often printed on wallpaper. Lafargue died in 1869.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Avoyelles Parish Courthouse: Solomon Northup Marker — 0.3 mi
  The Marksville courthouse where Solomon Northup was freed in January 1853, with a marker and a 2026 bronze that shows him rising from the mud.
• Tunica-Biloxi Museum — 1.4 mi
  The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Marksville, built around the Tunica Treasure that the tribe won back in court.
• Epps House: Solomon Northup's Gateway to Freedom — 21 mi
  The Creole cottage Solomon Northup helped build for the man who enslaved him, moved twice and now a small museum on the LSU Alexandria campus.
• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — 26 mi
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.

More markers nearby

• Joffrion-Roy-Luke Home — steps away
• Marksville Methodist Church — steps away
• Bailey Theater — 0.3 mi
• Founding Of Marksville — 0.3 mi