St. Landry Progress newspaper victim of 'Opelousas Massacre'
I’m in the process of completing another book for the Opelousas Tales Series that will focus on the newspaper history in Opelousas. Our town has seen the creation of more newspapers than most other small towns across America. So many that Opelousas is known as the Graveyard of Newspapers. While reviewing the materials I’ve collected over the last 40-plus years of researching this subject, I feel an important paper to the history of our town is one that was almost forgotten. Let’s talk about the St. Landry Progress. Studying the history of newspapers in Opelousas you’ll come across two...
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