Freedmen’s Bureau School
According to Freedmen’s Bureau records, the first town school in Natchitoches opened in September 1866 in “the public schoolhouse of four rooms,” which was occupied by three families at the time. The area marked “Public School Grounds” on this 1866 map of the town of Natchitoches was the site of an all-White school that is thought to have been the schoolhouse in which the first Freedmen’s Bureau was established. A number of other Freedmen’s Bureau schools would open in the town and the parish over the next few years
City of Natchitoches, 1866. Map 174, CHRC