Mr. Jack Hayes / Mrs. Ann Stapp Hayes

The junior college linked to Jack Hayes's drive opened as Ouachita Parish Junior College on September 28, 1931, and then changed names again and again. In 1934 it became the Northeast Center of Louisiana State University, in 1949 Northeast Junior College of LSU, and in 1950 an independent four-year school, Northeast Louisiana State College. It became Northeast Louisiana University in 1969, when it first granted doctorates, and the University of Louisiana at Monroe in 1999, a change Wikipedia calls controversial and says a 1995 state law required.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Masur Museum of Art — 0.5 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 1.7 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 3.7 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.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 5.6 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.

More markers nearby

• Ouachita Parish High School — steps away
• Fort Miro — steps away
• Prairie des Canots Seat of Justice — steps away
• St. Matthew Catholic Church — 0.3 mi