Town of Pollock

Pollock grew around a sawmill in 1892 and took the name of the mill's manager, Captain J. W. Pollock. The town has a harder history too. For many years it was a sundown town, where Black people were barred from staying after dark. The historian Herbert Aptheker, who commanded Black soldiers nearby in World War II, reported a sign at the town's boundary saying so. The town's size rose and fell with the timber: 637 people in 1900, and 317 by 1940.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana Maneuvers and Military Museum — 11 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 — 14 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 — 15 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 — 16 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

• Village of Dry Prong — 7.9 mi
• Camp Beauregard - 761st Tank Battalion — 11 mi
• State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy — 12 mi
• Superintendent William T. Sherman — 12 mi