Bon Ami is a ghost town that was located in what is currently Beauregard Parish, approximately 2 miles south of Deridder, Louisiana, United States. The...
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operations in DeRidder, Louisiana. The King-Ryder Lumber Company in Bon Ami, Louisiana, was the first Long-Bell venture in Louisiana; it also owned mills...
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Robert A. Long (section Louisiana)
Long-Bell Lumber Company organized the King-Ryder Lumber Company at Bon Ami, Louisiana. By 1904 the mill was producing 300,000 board feet of lumber daily...
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King-Ryder ceased milling at Thomasville about 1901, relocating instead to Bon Ami, Louisiana. The rail line was abandoned around this time. Thomasville was later...
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created a subsidiary, the King-Ryder Lumber Company (that was also in Bon Ami, Louisiana), which built a lumber mill at Thomasville and even a railway, the...
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Railway Company at DeRidder, the Kansas City Southern Railway Company at Bon Ami, DeRidder, and Lake Charles, the Lake Charles & Northern Railroad Company...
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Louisiana French (Louisiana French: français de la Louisiane; Louisiana Creole: françé la lwizyàn) is an umbrella term for the dialects and varieties...
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Grabow riot (category Industrial Workers of the World in Louisiana)
series of rallies at several different company towns including Bon Ami and Carson, Louisiana. The day started out with over 800 workers, women, and children...
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moved away when the railroads were laid to serve the busy sawmill towns of Bon Ami, Ludington, Fullerton and DeRidder. Had any of these mills or rail lines...
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Mansfield and north of Converse Blanche, Rapides Parish: Sawmill town Bon Ami, Beauregard Parish: South of Deridder Burrwood, Plaquemines Parish Carson...
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