Vernon Parish Courthouse

The courthouse in Leesville is a stucco-over-brick neoclassical building from 1910, square in plan, with four diagonal wings, pedimented porticos and a Baroque cupola. Leesville had a new parish courthouse as early as 1900, when the town counted 1,148 people; it reached 2,043 by 1910. The building sat at the center of a downtown that served as the whole parish's shopping district. After Camp Polk opened in 1941, the town's population is reported to have swelled from about 3,500 to 18,000, and troops crowded the downtown.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Kisatchie National Forest: Longleaf Vista — 28 mi
  A free ridge-top overlook and 1.5-mile loop above the 8,700-acre Kisatchie Hills Wilderness on the Longleaf Trail Scenic Byway, in the forest Caroline Dormon helped win in 1930.

More markers nearby

• Vernon Parish Founders — steps away
• Great Louisiana Maneuvers — steps away
• The Nona Mills Lumber Company — 0.3 mi
• Life Along The Sabine River — 0.4 mi