Morehouse Parish Training School

Two men bought the lot on November 29, 1915, for $775, and the school opened in January 1916 in Pythian Hall on High Street, backed partly by a $1,500 appropriation the parish school board made under the Slater Fund. R. G. Steptoe, the first principal, served until 1926. Fires destroyed the girls' dormitory and, twice, the elementary building, and classes moved into local churches. Henry V. Adams was principal from 1949 until his death in February 1965. In 1964 work began on an auditorium seating 1,489 and a stadium and track, costing about $318,000.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chemin-A-Haut State Park — 10 mi
  A 1935 park on the ridge above Bayou Bartholomew, the 359-mile bayou, named for the French 'high road' that followed the ridge.
• Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge — 14 mi
  A cypress lake inside the city limits of Monroe, run by the Fish and Wildlife Service on a 99-year lease, with a boardwalk, a wildlife pier and a planter's house visitor center.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 19 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 20 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.

More markers nearby

• Mable John — 0.6 mi
• "Ben and the Boys" — 7.5 mi
• Fant-Ewing Coliseum — 19 mi
• Selman Field Navigator Memorial — 20 mi