Winn Parish was established in 1852 from lands which had belonged to the parishes of Catahoula, Natchitoches, and Rapides.

At this time the area was Natchitoches Parish and later Overton became the Parish Seat of Claiborne Parish in 1836 until it moved in 1848.

It was created from Natchitoches Parish with the Sabine River as the international boundary between the United States and the Republic of Texas as the western boundary.

The parish was created from Natchitoches Parish on March 7, 1843.

One half township from Natchitoches, originally intended to be part of Sabine was added in 1854.

Many was on the Natchitoches San Antonio Road, known as El Camino Real, which carried traffic into Texas.

The first French settler was Vincent Porei, who was granted a small tract of land in July 1764 by the Civil and Military Commander of Natchitoches.

During the 1760s, the area was still a dependency of Natchitoches Parish PPC, Legajo 187a, 384-384v.

Natchitoches Parish was created by the act of April 10, 1805 that divided the Territory of Orleans into 12 parishes, including Orleans, Iberville, Rapides and Natchitoches.

* Caroline Dormon ( 1888 – 1971 ), naturalist, botanist, and preservationist ( 1888 – 1971 ) was born and lived on her family estate of Briarwood in Natchitoches Parish.

In 1843, a section of land was divided out of the Great Natchitoches district and Claiborne Parish areas and was called Bossier Parish.

Odom was a college football standout at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches and played a season for the Houston Oilers in 1964.

A 20-year professor of English, she was also a retired chairman of the Graduate Studies Division at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches.

A former Natchitoches Parish branch library, operated from the home of Eleanor Walker Bamburg ( 1915 – 2010 ), a librarian for forty years, was located across from the high school and the former store of Alvah Hume Dupree ( 1901 – 1974 ).

* Madison R. Lay ( 1864 – 1930 ), an Ashland native and the father of the educators Orie Lay and Dovie Lillias Lay Dupree, was among the first class of students enrolled in the Louisiana Normal School, located in Natchitoches, in its inaugural year of 1885.

Until his retirement in 1975, Murrl Hathorn was an employee in the Natchitoches office of the Valley Electric Membership Corporation, a part of the Rural Electrification Administration, since purchased by the Southwestern Electric Power Company.

Established in 1714 by Louis Juchereau de St. Denis as part of French Louisiana, the community was named after the Natchitoches Indian tribe.

The City of Natchitoches was first incorporated on February 5, 1819.

Natchitoches was founded as a French outpost on the Red River for trade with Spanish-controlled Mexico ; French traders settled there as early as 1699.

The post was established near a village of Natchitoches Indians, after whom the city was named.

* Bernhard Müller, immigrant from Germany to Monaca ; thereafter established Christian colony at Grand Ecore near Natchitoches, Louisiana ; husband of the Countess Leon.

Long the home of a major Indian tribe for which it was named, the French fortified Natchitoches in 1714 as an outpost of their New World Empire facing Spanish Texas to the west.

Winn is separated from Natchitoches Parish along U. S. Highway 71 by Saline Bayou, the first blackwater protected waterway in the American South.

The Vernon Parish Courthouse in Leesville, LA in 2010. On March 30, 1871, the Louisiana General Assembly passed an act designating the creation of Vernon Parish, by taking territory from the parishes of Natchitoches, Rapides, and Sabine.

* Boyd B. Durr ( 1926-2010 ), Ajax native, United States Army Air Corps service in World War II, law-enforcement officer from 1946-2000, Natchitoches town marshal, Democratic sheriff of Natchitoches Parish during the 1990s until unseated in the 1999 nonpartisan blanket primary by Victor E. Jones, Jr.

During the Civil War, Natchitoches was set on fire by Union soldiers who retreated through the town after their failed attempt to capture Shreveport.

In Louisiana, the area of present-day Natchitoches Parish was settled by French Creole and mixed-race Louisiana Creole people, starting before 1800.

He was elected to Congress to fill the Eighth District U. S. House seat vacated by the death of Representative James B. Aswell of Natchitoches.

The Caddo tribes were divided into three confederacies when first encountered by the Europeans, the Hasinai, Kadohadacho, and Natchitoches, and loosely affiliated with other tribes.

Renovation of the " High School Building ," ( known by no other formal title, but formerly the campus of Natchitoches High School ) was completed in 1984, and the ceremonial ribbon was cut by then Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards.

The Holiday Trail of Lights is a joint effort by cities in east Texas and northwest Louisiana that had its origins in the Festival of Lights and Christmas Festival in Natchitoches, started in 1927, making it one of the oldest light festivals in the United States.

Composed of many tribes, the Caddo were organized into three confederacies, the Hasinai, Kadohadacho, and Natchitoches, which were all linked by their similar languages.

Buchanan once appeared on ABC's The American Sportsman hosted by Grits Gresham of Natchitoches, Louisiana.

From 1965 to 1967, the program was hosted by former South Dakota Republican Governor, American Football League commissioner, and World War II hero Joe Foss ; it was later hosted by Grits Gresham, an outdoorsman from Natchitoches, Louisiana, and long-time sports announcer Curt Gowdy.

The Spanish countered by founding two more missions just west of Natchitoches, including San Miguel de los Adaes.

The first map to depict an Adaes ( Adaie ) settlement, shown to the west of a cluster of Natchitoches villages, was drawn in 1718 by Guillaume Delisle.

The Spanish countered by founding two more missions just west of Natchitoches, San Miguel de los Adaes and Dolores de los Ais.

* Louis Juchereau de St. Denis establishes Fort St. Jean Baptiste at the site of present day Natchitoches, Louisiana ( the first permanent European settlement in the Louisiana Territory, after Biloxi ( 1699 ) and Mobile, Alabama ( 1702 ) were separated ).

French colonization came later, in the early 18th century, with the French establishing missions in the Louisiana Territory districts: St. Louis, New Orleans, Biloxi, Mobile, the Alabamas, Natchez, Yazoo, Natchitoches, Arkansas, Illinois, and Michigan.

The Executive Board includes 9 members: Peggy Nighswonger, State Elections Director, Cheyenne, WY ( Chair ); Bill Campbell, City Clerk, City of Woburn, Woburn, MA ( Vice Chair ); Sarah Ball Johnson, Executive Director, State Board of Elections, Frankfort, KY ( Secretary ); Tonni Bartholomew, Troy City Clerk, Troy, MI ; Louis Bernard, Clerk of Court, Natchitoches Parish, Natchitoches, LA ; John Lindback, Director, State of Oregon, Elections Division, Salem, OR ; Larry Lomax, Clark County Registrar of Voters, North Las Vegas, NV ; Deb Markowitz, Secretary of State, Montpelier, VT ; and Todd Rokita, Secretary of State, Indianapolis, IN.

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The treaty stated that the boundary between the French claims on the north and the Spanish claims on the south was Rio Roxo de Natchitoches ( Red River ) until it reached the 100th meridian as noted on John Melish's map published in 1818.

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In 1740, Governor Prudencio de Orobio y Basterra was ordered to investigate French intrusion in the Natchitoches area.

The treaty stated that the boundary between the French claims on the north and the Spanish claims on the south was Rio Roxo de Natchitoches ( Red River ) until it reached the 100th meridian west as noted on John Melish's map published in 1818.

In June 1719, 7 Frenchmen from Natchitoches took control of the mission of San Miguel de los Adeas from its sole defender, who did not know that the countries were at war.

Aguayo then ordered the building of a new Spanish fort Nuestra Senora del Pilar de Los Adaes, located near present-day Robeline, Louisiana, only 12 miles ( 19 km ) from Natchitoches.

In June 1719, 7 Frenchmen from Natchitoches took control of the mission of San Miguel de los Adaes from its sole defender, who did not know that the countries were at war.

Aguayo then ordered the building of a new Spanish fort Nuestra Señora del Pilar de los Adaes, located near present-day Robeline, Louisiana, only 12 miles ( 19 km ) from Natchitoches.

In June 1719, 7 Frenchmen from Natchitoches took control of the mission San Miguel de los Adaes from its sole defender, who did not know that the countries were at war.

He then ordered the building of a new Spanish fort Nuestra Señora del Pilar de Los Adaes, located near present-day Robeline, Louisiana, only from Natchitoches.