Bunkie Post Office

In Bunkie's post office hangs Cotton Pickers, a 1939 mural by Caroline Speare Rohland, painted under the federal art programs that employed artists during the Depression, between 1934 and 1943. The office itself opened on January 26, 1883, on Main Street, and moved to its present building in 1937, two years before the mural went up. The railroad that created the town in 1882 also drew cotton compresses and cottonseed oil companies to the tracks between 1911 and 1940, according to the depot's National Register nomination.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tunica-Biloxi Museum — 13 mi
  The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana's own museum at Marksville, built around the Tunica Treasure that the tribe won back in court.
• Avoyelles Parish Courthouse: Solomon Northup Marker — 14 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.
• 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 — 29 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

• Cleco Originated in Bunkie, LA — steps away
• How Bunkie Got Its Name — steps away
• Bunkie Depot Museum — steps away
• Rays Ferry 1816 — 2.3 mi