Tioga Sawmill Commissary

The commissary is a single-story frame building with a gable at each end and a gallery of thirteen bays on chamfered posts, and inside it is one large room with two rows of square posts. Some of the original floorboards and counters survive. Tioga sat where three rail lines passed and was the western end of a branch line, yet it stayed a town of about 400 people. The commissary was where workers gathered, were paid and collected provisions, and it is one of the few buildings left from the parish's sawmill era.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum — 1.8 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.
• Forts Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site — 4.3 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 — 5.2 mi
  The restored Alexandria house where the Harlem Renaissance writer Arna Bontemps was born in 1902, on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
• Kent Plantation House — 6.2 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

• Camp Beauregard - 761st Tank Battalion — 1.8 mi
• First Louisiana Seminary — 1.8 mi
• State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy — 1.8 mi
• Superintendent William T. Sherman — 1.8 mi