Village of Fisher

Fisher was built to order. The Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company put up the village between 1899 and 1901 and named it for Oliver Williams Fisher. It remained a company town until 1966, when Boise Cascade Corporation bought the sawmill. In 1979 the surviving company buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Fisher Historic District. The population has slipped steadily since 1980, from 325 residents to 197 in the 2020 census, and the Census Bureau estimated 188 for 2025.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Jesup State Historic Site — 9.0 mi
  The 1822 army post Zachary Taylor built to hold the Neutral Ground between Louisiana and Spanish Texas, with the one surviving kitchen, a reconstructed officers' quarters and a museum open Friday to Sunday.
• North Toledo Bend State Park — 16 mi
  A 900-acre park on the Louisiana shore of the 186,000-acre Toledo Bend Reservoir, with trails, disc golf and cabins, near the flooded sites of Pine Flat and other Sabine Parish communities.
• Los Adaes State Historic Site — 18 mi
  The Spanish presidio that was the capital of Texas from 1729 to 1770, some 15 miles from French Natchitoches, now an archaeological site where Native pottery is the most abundant find.
• Red Hills Lake Recreation Area — 22 mi
  A 19-acre Sabine National Forest lake completed by the CCC in 1940 near Milam, a short drive from Toledo Bend Reservoir, with a swimming beach, fishing and camping from May through October.

More markers nearby

• Free State of Sabine — 3.5 mi
• Baldwin's Store — 5.2 mi
• El Camino Real — 9.1 mi
• Early Spanish Missions — 13 mi