🔎 The Louisiana Trust needs your help finding the location of lost cemeteries in 56 parishes across Louisiana. Identifying the location of historic cemeteries is important for many reasons, from reuniting families with their relatives to preventing costly change orders when cemeteries are discovered during construction. To see which historic cemeteries are in your area, contribute information & photos about a historic cemetery, or view a parish-by-parish list of historic cemeteries we need your help locating, visit our website linked in the comments below. (fb)

Happy Birthday to Gilbert Brian "G.B." Cooley, Monroe businessman who hired Chicago architect, Walter Burley Griffin, to design a house for him in 1908. Mr. Cooley wisely invested his savings in updating his steam laundry, and delayed construction of his house until 1925. This rare example of Prairie style architecture in the South will soon be rehabilitated, through the help of a Save America's Treasures Grant from the National Park Service. Join our friends at the Cooley House Foundation next week for a discussion of the rehabilitation work ahead and vision for the Cooley House. The talk will be held at the Masur Museum of Art - 1400 South Grand Street - Monroe - 5:30 to 7 p.m. - Thursday, October 30th. This lecture is sponsored by The Gregory Stone Family, Layton Castle, the Masur Museum of Art, and City of Monroe. Learn more about Mr. Cooley (and other notables) through StoryMaps on the Louisiana Register of Historic Cemeteries: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/54bc67b56cc84f7a97849e1e3aeb87ca (fb)