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Winn
Parish
French:
Paroisse de Winn
Winn Parish was
established on Feb. 24, 1852 from
lands which had belonged to the
parishes of Catahoula,
Natchitoches, and Rapides. The
parish and the town of Winnfield
were named in honor of
Louisiana state legislator Walter
O. Winn by surveyor Dennis
Mackie. The Parish seat is
Winnfield . Winn Parish was
incorporated in 1855 and is
located in the heart of the
Kisatchie National Forest. Among
the prominent people associated
with Winn Parish, Huey P. Long,
Earl K. Long, and Oscar K. Allen.
All three were governors of
Louisiana. Descriptions of the
parish seat found in the diary of
a passing Confederate soldier
stated that Winnfield was an ugly
town with only about five ugly
buildings. The soldier even
described the parish
jail as being ugly, and he offered
his sympathies to the poor soul
who had broken any law that would
cause him to have to stay in such
a lockup. A later description by a
government surveyor in the late
1800s gives a similar description.
Sadly, Winn Parish was poor from
birth. Today Winn Parish resembles
a step back in time. Full of
Historical homes and buildings
built long ago. The stories and
legends of ancestors repeated over
time, from generation to
generation, tell of outlaws and
bandits, governors and
politicians, oilmen and railroad
men. The era of the Indians and
before and after the Civil War.
Winn Parish in 1861 seceded from
Union, and became the "Free
State of Winn."
Adjacent
parishes
Jackson
Parish (north)
Caldwell
Parish (northeast)
La
Salle Parish (southeast)
Grant
Parish (south)
Natchitoches
Parish (west)
Bienville
Parish (northwest)
Cities
and Towns
Atlanta
Calvin
Dodson Sikes
Winnfield
Joyce
Saint Maurice
Tannehill
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