Louisiana AHGP

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Arizona, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana

Arizona, six miles east of Homer, may be said to have been founded in 1866.

Soon after the war a magnificent cotton factory was erected at this place, capable of employing a large number of hands. Its inconvenience to easy and rapid transportation, with other trouble, caused it to cease operating after a few years. It is now owned by the John Chaffe estate, and is motionless.

Arizona, for a number of years, was the seat of Arizona Seminary, a very popular and flourishing school under the principal-ship of J. W. Nicholson, now professor of mathematics in the State University at Baton Rouge. Notwithstanding the discontinuance of the factory, and the decadence of its school, Arizona has held many of its old citizens, the Willises, Wafers, Nicholsons, Drs. Calhoun and Baker, Dutcher, Corrys, etc.

Here Beacon Lodge No. 220, A. F. & A. M., was chartered in 1872, and existed until 1880.

Hither the Forest Grove Methodist Episcopal Church house was moved in 1886.

Biographical Sketches| Claiborne Parish

Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana, Southern Publishing Company, 1890