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Riverside Irrigation Company. Records, 1896-1991

 Collection
Identifier: UAAMC-COLL-0296

Scope and Contents

This collection contains business records from 1895 to 1991. Many administrative records, including minute books and correspondence, are at the McNeese State University Archives Coll. 33.

Joseph W. Freeland donated the collection.

Dates

  • 1896-1991

Creator

Biographical / Historical

The Riverside Irrigation Company was founded on 22 March 1895 in Jennings, Louisiana by Edward F. Rowson, Orin S. Dolby, and S. J. Johnson. Dolby soon sold out to C. A. McCoy who served as the company’s president for many years. The company purchased land along Bayou Nepique containing a sawmill, and quickly added a rice mill and warehouse. Canals were soon dug. Fourteen landowners signed on with the company in 1895. Lowell Stagg, a SLI graduate, served as Secretary, Treasurer, and General Manager from 1945 to 1978. In the 1990s the company stopped operating the canals and turned into a land management operation.

Extent

26.5833 Linear Feet (26 feet and 7 inches of materials contained in 18)

Language of Materials

English

Title
Riverside Irrigation Company Records
Status
Completed
Author
Zack Stein
Date
10/02/2019
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Part of the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection Repository

Contact:
Edith Garland Dupré Library
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
400 East St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette LA 70503 United States
337-482-6031