Louisiana College

Louisiana College opened on October 3, 1906, in tents in Pineville, with four professors and 19 students. Edwin O. Ware Sr., a Baptist minister, is counted its principal founder. It succeeded two older Baptist schools: Mount Lebanon College, which closed when the new college opened, and Keatchie Female College, which closed a few years later. The state convention's Education Commission ran it until a 1921 charter created a board of trustees. In November 2021 it announced a new name, Louisiana Christian University, though the state legal name had not yet been changed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Forts Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site — 1.3 mi
  Two Confederate earthen forts on the Red River at Pineville, built with enslaved labor and never attacked, beside the remains of Bailey's Dam.
• Arna Bontemps African American Museum — 1.5 mi
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
• Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum — 3.4 mi
  A National Guard museum in a replica WWII barracks at Camp Beauregard, built around the huge 1940-41 war games in Central Louisiana. Free.
• Kent Plantation House — 3.6 mi
  Rapides Parish's oldest known standing building, a Creole house with a February tour and a 2023 memorial that put the enslaved first.

More markers nearby

• Alexandria National Cemetery — 0.5 mi
• Central Louisiana State Hospital Cemetery — 0.7 mi
• Jefferson Highway — 0.9 mi
• The Jewish Cemetery — 1.0 mi