About Winnsboro, Louisiana

Winnsboro is a city of 4,862 people and the seat of Franklin Parish. Louisiana created the parish on March 1, 1843, from parts of Ouachita, Catahoula and Madison parishes, after state Senator John Winn pushed for it. In 1844 the parish bought land near its center for a seat of government, first spelled Winnsborough, and the town was laid out on property owned by John W. Willis.

Winnsboro was named the parish seat in 1846, and its first courthouse, a one-story frame building, was finished in 1847. A newspaper started in 1860. Later the New Orleans & Northwestern Railroad ran through, and an old parish history counted 821 people in a town with a bank, telegraph office and general stores. Winnsboro was incorporated on March 18, 1902. The first telephones came in 1905, followed by electric power in 1914, and the town gained water lines and sewers in 1923, a year before volunteers formed a fire department in 1924.

“The women, bearing lighted oil lamps, march slowly into the dimly lit sanctuary and encircle the table, singing β€œWhen the Saints Go Marching In” at a funereal tempo.”
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  • The last Easter RockOn the Saturday before Easter, women in white lead a vigil that likely began in Black Baptist plantation churches of northeast Louisiana before the Civil War. Their feet beat a rhythm as they move counterclockwise, and the singing goes back and forth between leader and group. Winnsboro's group is the only one known to keep the ritual alive, and its leader, Hattie Addison Burkhalter, won a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2021.
  • Found again in 1993Scholar H. F. Gregory described the fading tradition at the 1993 Delta Folklife Field School, and one listener, Anne Staten, went looking for it. Her cousin R. B. Kelly led her to Winnsboro, where Burkhalter was holding the service at the Original True Light Baptist Church. Burkhalter had taken it over from her mother, Ellen Addison, when Ellen's health failed.
  • The Princess TheatreThe Princess Theatre opened in 1907. It closed in 1988, then came back in 1994 as a stage for live shows. While the old True Light church needed repairs, the Easter Rock rockers were among those who used it.
  • A mural from 1939Winnsboro's post office went up in 1936, and in 1939 the New Deal art program added a mural by Datus Ensign Myers called Logging in Louisiana Swamps. The building now houses the Old Post Office Museum.

Find your street

Names on the Winnsboro map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks1

  • Winnsboro City Hall

Streets and roads125

  • Front Street
  • Riser Road
  • Kinloch Street
  • Highway 4
  • Taylor Avenue
  • Liddieville Road
  • Pine Street
  • Prairie Road
  • North State Route 15
  • Lone Cedar Road
  • Loop Road
  • Highway 130
  • Main Street
  • Highway 868
  • Davis Street
  • Franklin Street
  • Percy Street
  • Eighth Street
  • McKeithen Drive
  • Power Street
  • Kennon Drive
  • Prairie Street
  • Rose Avenue
  • Guice Road
  • Polk Street
  • Industrial Drive
  • Fair Avenue
  • Gum Street
  • West Street
  • Carter Street
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  • Maple Street
  • Hickory Street
  • Oak Street
  • Havard Street
  • Roland Street
  • Harper Street
  • Mc Duff Drive
  • Baldwin Drive
  • Bosworth Street
  • Carver Street
  • Earle Drive
  • Third Street
  • Ellis Street
  • Second Street
  • Gary Street
  • Steele Street
  • Blanson Street
  • Cypress Street
  • Lanier Drive
  • Hunter Street
  • Cajun Drive
  • McCaleb Road
  • Glover Drive
  • Robinson Drive
  • Common Street
  • Newman Street
  • Highland Street
  • Merrells Street
  • Harlem Street
  • Dallas Street
  • Holly Drive
  • Davenport Street
  • Mike Street
  • Brass Street
  • Grayson Street
  • Rogers Drive
  • Nichols Drive
  • Milam Street
  • Hatfield Street
  • Landis Street
  • Ruth Street
  • Adams Street
  • Fifth Street
  • Allison Street
  • Isabell Street
  • Western Street
  • Pinecrest Street
  • Tensas Street
  • Nell Street
  • Mason Street
  • Lavender
  • Lewis Street
  • Young Street
  • Ursula Drive
  • Duncan Street
  • Moore Street
  • Caston Street
  • Orr Lane
  • Fourth Street
  • Scott Street
  • Peters
  • Highway 3201
  • Highway 865
  • Gwin Street
  • Martin Drive
  • Warren Street
  • Smith Street
  • Martin Luther King Drive
  • Lowry Street
  • Sikes
  • Mary Marr Street
  • Jackson Street
  • Bolton Street
  • Elizabeth Street
  • Morning Street
  • Alice Shaw Road
  • Carolyn Street
  • Lane Street
  • White Street
  • Gene Street
  • Sarah Street
  • Lesh Street
  • Sixth Street
  • Robinson Circle
  • Harris Street
  • Macon Street
  • Lumpkin Road
  • Ray Scott Road
  • Mays Drive
  • Joel Lane
  • Airport Drive
  • David Street
  • Randall Street
  • First Street
  • Lofton Lane

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The art of mapping a place

How This Map Was Made

Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.

  1. Aerial imagery of Mendon, Massachusetts, from the USDA NAIP program

    The view from above

    Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.

  2. USGS elevation data rendered as shaded relief of Mendon, Massachusetts

    The shape of the land

    Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.

  3. Closeup of roads, waterways, and buildings on the Mendon, Massachusetts map

    The details of home

    Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.

  4. Finished Mendon, Massachusetts map shown in a black frame

    Geography becomes art

    Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.

Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.

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