Town of Olla

Olla's most famous night came in August 1900. Unknown bandits set a fire on the tracks north of town to stop a train, made the conductor uncouple the mail and express cars, and rode off with less than fifty dollars. The money they wanted was not aboard. It is called the only documented armed train holdup in Louisiana. The town was older than its rail stop: Castor Sulfur Springs moved to the new line in 1891, and the new town took the name of Miss Olla Mills, daughter of its doctor, Frank Mills.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Catahoula National Wildlife Refuge — 26 mi
  A 25,000-acre bottomland refuge beside Catahoula Lake, a Ramsar wetland that is a major early-season stop for ducks on the Mississippi Flyway.

More markers nearby

• Columbia — 17 mi
• Bobby Bridger — 17 mi
• Wade Landing Mound — 18 mi
• Long Home Site — 23 mi