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Moncla

Colonized in the late 1700s.Named forDr. Joseph Thibault Moncla1806-1883   Emigrant of Moncla, France, and husband of Arsene Bordelon. This settlement, on the south bank of the Red River, included...

Colonized in the late 1700s.
Named for
Dr. Joseph Thibault Moncla
1806-1883

 

Emigrant of Moncla, France, and husband of Arsene Bordelon. This settlement, on the south bank of the Red River, included a ferry, stagecoach stop, steamboat landing, warehouse, sawmill, cotton gin, general store, school and church. Moncla Post Office was established in 1896.

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