This collection consists of records from the Ludeau Pitre Store and Dixieland Ranch. This includes store ledgers, sharecropper time books, correspondence, receipts, and miscellaneous farm material from the store and ranch.

Boisy Pitre, great-grandson of Ludeau Pitre, donated this collection.

This collections contains mainly documents related to law practice of François Richard, fils, in St. Landry Parish and to legal matters involving the Richard family. Of special interest is a contract between a former enslaver and freedmen executed on 16 August 1865.

Sandra Clayton Richard donated this collection in 1989.

This collection contains microfilm copies of St. Landry Parish colonial documents, arranged chronologically. For a description of items 1 through 457, see Calendar of Louisiana Colonial Documents, Volume II: St. Landry Parish, Part One, by Winston DeVille, call number Z 1289 .A35 v.2 pt.1 in the Louisiana Room Genealogy Collection.

The collection was microfilmed by the Louisiana State Archives. The film was transferred from LaRm Microfilm 1048 in 2015.

This minute book contains minutes of the Parish Court of St. Landry from June 8, 1807 through June 12, 1811. These minutes are handwritten. Also included is the St. Landry Parish record of oaths and minutes of court from 1815 through 1817. This is also handwritten.

This collection consists of correspondence and financial records.

Mardell Sibley donated the collection.

This collection contains the minutes to meetings and financial records for the Town of Washington, a journal documenting minutes for the Board of Police, and the Code of the Ordinances for Opelousas. Washington Mayor Dwight Landreneau’s office donated the collection.