Riverside Irrigation Company. Records, 1896-1991
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
- Riverside Irrigation Company (1895-) (Organization)
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
Edith Garland Dupré Library
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
400 East St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette LA 70503 United States
337-482-6031
speccoll@louisiana.edu