How a Little White House in Bossier Parish, Louisiana was “the birthplace of secession” in 1860
The Capitol of The Free State of Bossier
I was two years old when my grandparents joined a little country church in Bossier Parish. If that hadn’t happened, I might not have learned that Rocky Mount, Louisiana, was the birthplace of Southern secession.
Today, Rocky Mount, Louisiana, is a tiny unincorporated community between Benton and Plain Dealing. But when I was a child, it was on its way to becoming a historic destination.
“Don’t ever forget this history,” Brother Gene Ingram, our pastor, told me one Sunday afternoon when I was a child. We were standing in the open-air hallway of an old house in the woods near New Bethel Baptist Church. At the time, the old house was known as “the birthplace of secession.” But I was much too young to understand what the term secession actually meant.
Years later, I went to check on the old house and found that it was no longer in the woods.
The old dogtrot house hadn’t caved in on itself. It was just gone. And it took me several years to find out what happened to the old house.
Here is the old home’s…
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