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Oakdale is a city in Allen Parish in south Louisiana, United States. The population was 7,780 at the 2010 census. [2] Oakdale was founded as "Dunnsville" by William T. Dunn. The history of Allen Parish is preserved at the Leatherwood Museum, which reopened on September 27, 2008, in a renovated facility at 202 E. 7th Ave. in Oakdale. [3]
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Rush Wimberly graduated from Arcadia High School, an entity of the Bienville Parish School Board. Having privately thereafter studied the law, he was admitted to the bar in 1894. After his legislative years, Wimberly moved to Shreveport in Caddo Parish in northwestern Louisiana, where he formed the law firm, Wimberly, Reeves and Dorman.
The Oakdale Lumberjacks were a minor league baseball team based in Oakdale, Louisiana. In 1920, the Oakdale Lumberjacks played as members of the Class D level Louisiana State League, winning the league championship in the league's only season of play. Oakdale hosted home minor league games at the Oakdale High School Field.
The cemetery board hired Captain George F. de la Roche, who had finished the design of Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington, D.C. five years earlier, to complete the design and platting of the cemetery. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It was designed as a rural or garden cemetery, but it transitioned to a landscape-lawn cemetery beginning in the late 19th century. [ 6 ]
The Federal Correctional Institution, Oakdale (FCI Oakdale) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Louisiana. It is part of the Oakdale Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) and operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons , a division of the United States Department of Justice .
Oakdale High School is a senior high school in downtown Oakdale, Louisiana, United States. The current structure was established in 1923. The current structure was established in 1923. OHS is a part of the Allen Parish School Board and opened in 1923.
Leslie Vaughn Rush was born in Meridian, Mississippi on February 16, 1905, [1] the third and youngest child of Dr. Jesse Hackley Rush and his wife, the former Mary Hunnicutt. [2] [3] On February 15, 1915, the day before his tenth birthday, Leslie's father founded Rush's Infirmary, the first private hospital in Meridian. Leslie would eventually ...