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Bogalusa Story by C. W. Goodyear. Copyright, 1950, By C. W. Goodyear. Privately Printed by Wm. J. Keller Inc. in Buffalo, New York

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Cover of book   -
Old French Map on the inside covers of book   -
Washington Parish Courthouse   6
Natives of Washington Parish   8
Fielding and Nick: some of the Adams family   10
Professor Young and his pupils in front of Lee's Creek schoolhouse. Professor Young (in doorway) followed Eugene Bunch as schoolteacher   12
Judge Joe Ard’s home   15
Mrs. J. M. McGehee in front of her Washington Parish home near Ben's Ford where she lived for over fifty years.   20
Entrance to Preacher Ford's home   22
Preacher Ford's home - Mrs. Willie Rankin, a direct descendant, stands on the gallery.   23
Bedroom of Preacher Ford's house where Andrew Jackson slept.   24
Uncle Jimmy Whalen in a forest of longleaf yellow pine   26
Tom Pigott in 1946 at the age of seventy-six   28
The Le Roy Pearce family   32
Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Adams   45
F. H. Goodyear and C. W. Goodyear   48
Charles and Ella Goodyear   53
Ella gave birth to three sons and a daughter   55
World War I: Charley, Conger, and Bailey   56
The left wing of this hospital, in Austin, Pa., was the home where Ella and the children spent several summers.   57
The Goodyear sawmill in Austin, Pennsylvania   58
Ella in one of the dresses that she wore when she and Charles were guests of President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland in the White House.   62
Esther at one of the Country Club horse shows   64
The Charles Goodyear home in "Millionaire's Row," 888 Delaware Avenue   66
The terrace was a favorite place of Madam Goodyear's   67
The stable at 888 Delaware Avenue   68
One hundred and ninety-five years of faithful service   70
The family tree continued to spread its branches:
Descendants of Charles Waterhouse GOODYEAR and Ellen Portia CONGER.
  72
Colony of tents on Bogue Lusa Creek   77
Blarney Castle was later used for a restaurant. (Geo. M. Gallaher, Prop.)   79
The first Company commissary   80
Top: Otto Strattman, corral boss and deputy sheriff
Bottom: Deputy sheriffs Mizell, Magee, and Pearce
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Crossing Bogue Chitto River  Closeup: 86
The first passenger train arrives in Bogalusa.   88
The office force on the steps of the Colonial Hotel   90
Portable sawmill   92
Logging timber blown down by tornado   93
Pine Tree Inn   95
Office building of the Great Southern Lumber Company   96
The home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Sullivan on Bogue Lusa Creek   97
Log pond   100
Refuse burner, sawmill, and power house   101
One of the band mills and carriages in the sawmill   102
Bogalusa High School   106
Great Southern Lumber Company commissary   109
Columbia Street in the early days   110
Columbia Street twenty-five years later   111
The Company hospital   112
The Kingfish at the Washington Parish Fair. (Senator Huey P. Long)  Closeup: 114
Y.M.C.A.   118
Y.M.C.A.   119
The Directors made frequent trips to Bogalusa. The following appear in the picture:
Will Sullivan, Miner Crary, Maurice Wuescher, Ganson Depew, Horace Redfield, Orlo
Hamlin, Fred Lehr, Jim Whelan, F. L. Peck, Mrs. Depew, Major Hart, Walter Cooke,
Jerry Crary, Frank Goodyear, Charley Goodyear, Jack Cassidy, and Dan Cushing.
  120
An inspection trip to the logging operations. Among those appearing in the picture:
Will Sullivan, Charley Goodyear, George Townsend, Orlo Hamlin, Conger Goodyear, Frank Goodyear, Jack Cassidy, Jack Trounce, and Cam Long.
  121
City Hall   124
Will Sullivan with Lee Fohl, manager of the St. Louis Browns   125
Michael J. McMahon   128
The Mother of Bogalusa
(Elizabeth Fitzrandolph Sullivan was married to William Henry Sullivan.)
  130
Pulp and paper mill in foreground. Sawmill in background.   136
Pulp and paper mill   137
Refuse burner at sawmill  Closeup: 139
Ted Olmsted   142
 WEDDING PARTY
Left to right: Betty Sullivan, Jack Cassidy, Bride,
Groom, Mrs. Martin, Fred Salmen
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The Photographers   158
Pine cones containing seeds for planting the nursery   162
Preparing the ground and planting the seed for slash-pine nursery   164
Nursery with 7,000,000 pine seedlings   165
Seven-year-old slash pines grown from seedlings planted in 1924.   166
Picture taken in 1936 of slash pines which were hand planted with seedlings in 1924-1925. Paul M. Garrison, Chief Forester, stands in an area where 7 cords of pulpwood to the acre have been thinned, leaving 27 cords to the acre.   167
One of the paper machines   170
Dinner given in 1927 at Madam Goodyear's home in Buffalo to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Great Southern Lumber Company and Conger's fiftieth birthday.

Clockwise around the table: Edward deCernea (hidden by centerpiece), W. E. Farris, C. M. Daniels, R. H. Laftman, A. B. Watson, W. M. Ogelsby, M. J. McMahon, J. McC. Mitchell, A. C. Goodyear, H. C. Laverack, R. H. Redfield, J. L. Kenefick, James How, M. E. Olmsted, Jr., Bradley Goodyear, O. J. Hamlin, Ganson Depew, W. H. Sullivan, C. W. Goodyear

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Jack Cassidy and family in front of his home   174
Four generations of the Goodyear family
(C.W.G.; C.W.G., II; C.W.G., III; and C.W.G., IV.)
Plaque reads:
Charles W. Goodyear
1846 - 1911
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Left: Andrew T. Goodyear and Right: Mary A. Goodyear
King Bogue and Queen Lusa in their coronation robes at the Childrens (sic) Carnival.
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Home of Charles W. Goodyear, III, bordering the golf course   180
His father's house is less pretentious   181
Money Hill Tung Plantation   188
Donice Watts, herdsman   191
The Tung Blossom Queen and her Court after the coronation. Tung trees in bloom in the background.   194
Tammany House   195
Living Room, Tammany House   196
Registered palomino   197
F. O. (Red) Bateman   198
Melvin Williams and Dave Thompson   199
Plantation House and General Store   200
N. W. Pittman, bookkeeper and storekeeper   201
Charles W. Goodyear Memorial Gateway   206
Bronze tablet on Memorial Gateway

It reads:

   THIS GATEWAY IS GIVEN TO
THE CITIZENS OF BOGALUSA
AS A MEMORIAL TO CHARLES
W. GOODYEAR, ONE OF THE
FOUNDERS OF THE CITY.
   ON THIS TRACT OF LAND
THERE WAS A FOREST OF VIRGIN
YELLOW PINE TREES FROM
WHICH WAS CUT THE FIRST LOG
THAT WAS MANUFACTURED INTO
LUMBER AT THE SAWMILL OF
THE GREAT SOUTHERN LUMBER
COMPANY IN 1908 AND ALSO THE
LAST LOG AT THE END OF THE
LUMBER OPERATION IN 1938.
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