Trenton

Trenton is gone as a town, but Trenton Street still runs through West Monroe. By October 1883 the railroad had named its depot across from Monroe West Monroe, and the Ouachita Telegraph urged extending Monroe's jurisdiction over it. The name is said to come from railroad workers who described their spot as west of Monroe. It now covers the former towns of Trenton and Cottonport. Cottonport began as Byron, laid out in 1837 by John Campbell at the ferry landing, became Cotton Port in 1854, was recognized in 1859, and boomed once the railroad and bridge arrived.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 0.2 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.
• Masur Museum of Art — 2.3 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.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 4.7 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 — 6.7 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

• Monroe Residential Historic District — 0.4 mi
• The Twin City Jamboree — 0.9 mi
• Enoch's Pub & Café — 1.1 mi
• Site of First City Hall of West Monroe — 1.2 mi