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Dixie
Dixie Cross Roads in Bossier Parish was on the Star
Route of the United Post Office until the Texarkana,
Shreveport,
and Natchez Railroad (later sold to Texas and Pacific)
was laid through Bossier Parish.1
With the
introduction of the railroad elsewhere, the town
collapsed, but a new town in Caddo Parish formed, taking
the name “Dixie” from this former community.2 The
railroad came through the area in about 1890; a cotton
gin stood on one side of the road and the bales crossed
above the road to be loaded on the dock and the railroad
depot across the street.3
In 1902
Ellison M. Adger of Belcher drilled a water well near
Cottonwood Bayou for his livestock, but was disgusted
when he drilled 425 feet and hit salt waste. After
learning that drilling would only produce
natural gas
and oil, he abandoned the idea of drilling his well.
Natural gas was later found in the area, and shortly
afterward Dixie’s homes and businesses were using gas
lighting and heating.4
The school board built a brick school in
Dixie, but
it closed in the 1940’s when it was consolidated with
the school in Belcher.5
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