Ida Louisiana

Ida's old post office is now a museum. The W. C. Reynolds Building on East Magnolia served as the post office from 1923 to 1962, became the Ida Museum in 1997, and was renamed in 2010 the Capt. Fletcher E. Adams 357th Fighter Group Museum, after a World War II flying ace. Ida was incorporated as a village in 1967, and the Methodist church built in 1905 still serves the community. Interstate 49 passes just west, with Exit 245 on Louisiana 168 serving the village, about 36 miles north of Shreveport on U.S. 71.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana State Oil and Gas Museum — 18 mi
  The state's first public petroleum museum in Oil City, on the 1905 Caddo Parish strike and the 1911 over-water well on Caddo Lake, with a derrick and a log-jam exhibit.
• Atlanta State Park — 26 mi
  A shoreline park on Wright Patman Lake, leased from the Army in 1954, where Caddo ancestors farmed the Sulphur River and wagon traces such as the Bobo Ferry trace still cross the woods.
• Caddo Lake State Park — 28 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps park on the Texas shore of Caddo Lake, where the Caddo told of a lake made by wind-driven water and visitors now paddle Big Cypress Bayou past moss-hung bald cypress.
• Caddo Lake National Wildlife Refuge — 28 mi
  Wetlands and woods on part of a former ammunition plant, now a refuge for wood ducks, prothonotary warblers and alligator snapping turtles, with four easy trails and a free visitor center on a Ramsar lake.

More markers nearby

• Discovery-Rodessa Oil Field — 6.3 mi
• Vivian Railroad Station — 11 mi
• Smyrna Baptist Church — 12 mi
• Town of Gilliam — 13 mi