• Madison Parish Courthouse - Tallulah LA
    Madison Parish Courthouse was completed in 1939 in the Colonial Revival style by the PWA and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
  • Post Office (former) - Tallulah LA
    The historic former post office in Tallulah, Louisiana was constructed ca. 1935 with Treasury Department funds. The building now houses the Madison Parish Health Unit. A mural created for the building has been relocated to Tallulah's current post office.
  • Post Office Mural - Tallulah LA
    This 1938 fresco “The River” was painted by Francisca Negueloua, for Tallulah's then-new post office, with funding from the Treasury Section of Fine Arts. That post office is now the Madison Parish Health Unit; the mural has been relocated to Tallulah's current post office.
  • Thomastown Community, Ladelta Co-operative Association Farm Settlement - Tallulah LA
    The Farm Security Administration established a resettlement project called the Ladelta Co-operative Association at Thomastown, Louisiana in 1938. The project was for African American families who had been sharecroppers. The project included 147 individual farmsteads, with five-room house, barn, smokehouse, and poultry shed. The project also included the school building, and cotton gin. The project encompassed 21,876 acres in East Carroll (Transylvania) and Madison (Thomastown) parishes. Bids were solicited for the community center construction in May 1939. The high school at Thomastown graduated its first class in 1944. The building was destroyed by fire in 1972, but the elementary school...