Old Lecompte High School and Museum

11/08/2026

Thanks to Lowell Miller of Lecompte for donating these wonderful books to our Museum collections. They are all on display now in the old LHS library study hall. The two books are text books from the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland from 1952. The various technical diagrams and schematics are very interesting to look at. All that machinery and pneumatics were considered state-of-the-art cutting science at the time. They belonged to his Uncle Floyd Bergeaux.

11/08/2026

Thanks to Lowell Miller of Lecompte for donating these wonderful books to our Museum collections. They are all on display now in the old LHS library study hall. This is a wonderful Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge copy of their 1937 Gumbo yearbook. It is fascinating to look through this to see what was happening on LHS campus in 1936-37. The photos of the students and activities and various classes is vintage and the ads in the back are very instructive as to the types and variety of businesses in and around Baton Rouge during that era. The beautiful monochrome artwork was used as divider pages for the various sections of the yearbook. They portray a variety of trades and agricultural activates prevalent in the economics of Louisiana during the 1930s (before and after). Lowell also donated this large United States and World Atlas from 1961. It was a stellar work and it was published as a partnership between Life Magazine and Rand McNally. It was the deluxe edition.

11/08/2026

Thanks to Lowell Miller of Lecompte for donating these wonderful books to our Museum collections. They are all on display now in the old LHS library study hall. These two yearbooks from 1940-1941 and 1941-1942 are the earliest yearbooks published by Lecompte High School. No yearbooks were published during the rest of World War Two and the first yearbook published after the war was in 1950! We do have two more (more intact) copies of each of these yearbooks. Our entire LHS yearbook collection is on the long countertop inside the old school office on the 2nd floor. These first two yearbooks had stiff paper covers. The first actual hardback yearbook was in 1950.

11/08/2026

Thanks to Lowell Miller of Lecompte for donating these wonderful books to our Museum collections. They are all on display now in the old LHS library study hall. The Naval books belonged to his uncle Floyd Bergeaux and the other books and yearbooks belonged to various relatives. I wanted to place the Naval books in our Military History and Veteran's museum room, but we have absolutely no more room in that area for anymore items or objects. We very much appreciate these books donated by Lowell Miller and they are the only ones like them in our collections.

11/07/2026

Here is a look at some of the great improvements at CCR! Inside and out!!
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11/04/2026

The lovely Trinity Windows of Holy Comforter Episcopal Church in Lecompte. The inside dark woods are so beautifully highlighted by all the side stained glass windows. These three round windows are the ones that can be see from the street side of the church and are especially beautiful from the inside.

11/04/2026

We love to support our local churches which do so much to inspire and motivate our town of Lecompte and community. We have made posts on most of our local church's ANNIVERSARY events. Our local churches have done so much to be a part of who we are as a town and community.

11/02/2026

We have recently acquired in our collections The Alexandria Daily Town Talk, Centennial Album, Book II. NOTE: if anyone has a copy of the Centennial Album, Book I, please find it and donate it to our museum!!! Here is a photo of the cover and then photos of some of the pages inside. The articles themselves are interesting but also you get to see some of the ads for companies and places that were around Alexandria 43 years ago. Note: this is an oversized volume 14 in W and 18 in H.

The Alexandria Daily Town Talk Centennial Album (published around 1983) is a historical commemorative book series produced in connection with the 100th anniversary of The Town Talk newspaper in Alexandria, Louisiana. Founded in May 1883.

• Publisher / Origin: Published in connection with The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (and McCormick & Co.) in Alexandria, Louisiana.
• Content: Features historical local biographies, archival photographs, and milestones chronicling the history of Alexandria and Rapides Parish over the newspaper's first century.
• Format: Multi-volume special series (such as Book 1, Volume 1 released in 1983).
• 1983 Time Capsule: To mark the 1983 centennial, the paper and community also sealed a time capsule containing the newspaper's special editions, city directories, microfilm, and commemorative coins, which was later acquired by archivists at Louisiana State University at Alexandria (LSUA).

11/02/2026

Another church and community event for November. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19oqaCpxh2/

The community is invited to come enjoy an afternoon of visiting Santa, cookies, crafts, and watch "Christmas Vacation" at FUMC Lecompte. Please share this within the Lecompte community.