Vernon Parish is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,750. The parish seat is Leesville. Bordered on the west by the Sabine River, the parish was founded in 1871 during the Reconstruction era.
Leesville is a city in, and the parish seat of, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 5,649 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Fort Polk South micropolitan area and is additionally served by the Leesville Airport. The city is home to the Fort Johnson U.S. Army installation.
Batesburg-Leesville is a town located in Lexington and Saluda counties, South Carolina, United States. The town's population was 5,362 as of the 2010 census and an estimated 5,415 in 2019.
Louisiana Highway 8 is a state highway in Louisiana. It spans 156 miles (251 km) beginning at the Louisiana/Texas state line west of Leesville and ending at an intersection with U.S. Route 425 and LA 15 in Sicily Island.
City Park Golf Course is a public golf course in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and was the first public golf course and the city's only public course until the mid-1950s. The short, 34-par, nine-hole course was completed in 1926 and officially opened in 1928.
San Francisco Plantation House is a historic plantation house in Reserve, St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana. Built in 1853–1856, it is one of the most architecturally distinctive plantation houses in the American South. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974. It is now a museum and event facility.
Pass Manchac Light was a historic lighthouse in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, which was originally established in 1838, to mark the north side of the entrance to Pass Manchac, the channel between Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas. The fourth and last tower on this particular site was constructed in 1857 and was in service for 130 years. The first three had been built in 1838, 1842, and 1846, in each case requiring replacement due to poor construction and/or encroaching lake waters.
The First United Methodist Church is a church in Leesville, Louisiana. Located at 202 N. Fifth Street, the building was built in 1920 in a Bungalow style/Craftsman style, Mission style/Spanish Revival style and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
Holly Grove Methodist Church is a historic church in Vernon Parish, Louisiana which was built in 1894 and enlarged in 1915. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Hartley House, also known as the Bond-Bates-Hartley House, is a historic home located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built before 1800 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, weatherboard dwelling with a two-story portico adapted from the Greek Revival. It has a closed brick foundation and a gable roof. The portico is supported by two square wooden pillars set outside a pair of smaller pillars. According to local tradition, the house served as a stagecoach stop and post office before the founding of Batesburg.
Thomas Galbraith Herbert House, also known as the Shealy House, is a historic home located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1878, and is a 1 1/2-half story Victorian Eclectic style dwelling. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has a raised seam, metal, multi-gabled roof. It features a projecting front gable with a recessed balcony and a full width front porch.
J. B. Holman House is a historic home located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in 1910, and is an asymmetrical, two-story Queen Anne style frame residence. It features a polygonal, tent roofed turret and wraparound porch. The hipped porch is supported by paired Tuscan order colonettes. The gabled roof is sheet metal shingles and the house is sheathed in aluminum siding.
Crowell Mitchell House is a historic home located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in the 1880s and is a two-story, frame Victorian dwelling. The front facade features ornamental double-tiered porches which connect flanking bays. It is representative of a typical middle-class residence with spacious simple rooms, large window area, and scrollwork balustrades.
Mitchell-Shealy House, also known as the Berley Shealy House, is a historic home located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1855, and is a two-story weatherboard residence that combines Greek Revival and Italianate features. It consists of a rectangular central block and one-story, centered rear ell. It features a central projecting double portico beneath a front gable.
Rev. Frank Yarborough House is a historic home located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1906, and is a one-story frame Victorian cottage set on open brick piers. It features an ornamented wraparound porch and a steep central cross gable.
Church Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington County, South Carolina. It encompasses nine contributing buildings in a residential section of Leesville. They were largely constructed between about 1865 and 1909, with one house built after 1910. The district includes the Gothic Revival style Leesville Methodist Church (1909) and notable Italianate and Queen Anne style residences.
The Vernon Parish Courthouse, located at 201 S. 3rd St. in Leesville in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, was built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 and is part of the 30th Judicial District Court of Louisiana.
The Comeaux House is a historic house located at 101 East 2nd Street in Broussard, Louisiana.
The Joseph H. Kurth, Jr., House, in Vernon Parish, Louisiana near Leesville, Louisiana, was built in 1920. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The Kansas City Southern Depot, now the Museum of West Louisiana, is a former railway station in Leesville, Louisiana. It was built by the Kansas City Southern Railway in 1916. It served as a combination of passenger station, freight station, and crew change point. The station was a busy shipping point during the Vernon Parish lumber boom in the early part of the 1900s. A local KCS train served the station into the 1960s.
