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- Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008
Hadwin, Cynthia Diann, 61, of Bossier City, died Saturday; graveside services at 2 p.m. today in Old Town Cemetery, Haynesville; arrangements by Rose-Neath Funeral Home, Southside Drive, Shreveport.
- La. Choctaw-Apache Tribe growing
EBARB - The Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb can trace its beginnings to 13 families that in the early 1700s settled on the east side of the Sabine River.
- Search yields personal items of missing man
EBARB - There have been no new developments in the search of a missing Sabine Parish man, Sheriff Guffey Lynn Pattison said today.
- Zwolle prepares for Christmas Festival
ZWOLLE - The second annual Zwolle Christmas Festival will be Dec. 19 on the Zwolle Festival Grounds.
- Save a Patriot and Go to Jail
Dr. Garland D. Miller was a successful physician in Zwolle, Louisiana. He even served as Sabine Parish's elected coroner.
- Sabine physician's tax evasion trial begins today
Jury selection is under way today in U.S. District Court in the federal tax evasion trial of a Sabine Parish physician.
- Zwolle man pleads guilty to federal firearms charges
A Zwolle man, who pulled a gun on a Sabine sheriff's deputy last year, will spend time in a federal prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to firearms charges.
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City DescriptionZwolle is a town in Sabine Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,783 at the 2000 census.
The first inhabitants of the bowl shaped area of land upon which the town of Zwolle is situated were the Mound Builders. Lured here for protection from storms, the "bowl" offered them protection. Prehistoric people built the dome-shaped mounds that line the banks of Bayou Scie and Bayou San Miguel, which form a hollow circle around the townsite. Like all other Mound Builders they are believed to be ancestors of North American Indians found occupying the territory when the Europeans arrived.
The first English-speaking settlers arrived in Sabine Parish in 1824 coming by way of Natchitoches. These pioneer homeseekers came chiefly from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas. In 1871, many more of these settlers moved in and acquired land under the homestead act.
Arthur Stilwell built the Kansas City Southern Railroad from Kansas city to Port Arthur, Texas. He had reached Van Buren, Arkansas in 1893 when he ran out of funds. Stilwell went to Zwolle, Holland and met with a rich coffee merchant Jan De Goeijen (John De Queen). De Queen sold a $3,000,000 stock issue for ... Read MoreCity Contained By:- United States
- Sabine Parish
- Louisiana
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