The Woodville Republican

Keeping a weekly alive in Woodville has mostly meant changing machines, not owners. Captain John S. Lewis bought the paper in June 1879, and his son Robert edited it until 1934, when his widow Helen Latane Lewis took over. Their son became the youngest editor of the state's oldest newspaper in 1938. A linotype replaced the hand-set type machine, nicknamed George Washington, in 1924, and hot type outlasted most of its rivals. Compugraphic typesetting arrived in 1980 and Macintosh computers in 1992, for a circulation near 2,500.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Clark Creek Natural Area — 13 mi
  A 700-acre ravine preserve in the Tunica Hills with about 50 waterfalls on loess bluffs, reached by a 4.9-mile loop trail, foot traffic only.
• Audubon State Historic Site — 21 mi
  Oakley House, where Audubon taught drawing and painted 32 birds in 1821, and the two cabins behind it where four Black families lived through slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 21 mi
  The Angola museum outside the penitentiary gate, opened in 1997 on the history of crime and punishment in Louisiana, on ground where convicts were leased out as what 64 Parishes calls legal slave labor.
• Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site — 21 mi
  A cotton plantation worked by hundreds of enslaved people, whose names survive in an 1862 succession list; the Turnbull house and gardens, and the quarters nobody has yet found.

More markers nearby

• Carnot Posey Home — steps away
• Woodville Blues — steps away
• William Grant Still — steps away
• Fort Adams — 0.2 mi