Explore the Rich History of Webster

The continued growth and development of Webster Parish Training School has been so strikingly phenomenal, its influence so far reaching, and the interest of the entire citizenry of Minden and Webster Parish so great that the Principal, Mr. W. Leon Hayes, and others who have observed its growth think it befitting that the history of this school should be written as our memo to the memory of the many citizens, white and colored, who sponsored this cause and gave their influence, labor, and money in the dark days when faith and hope were at a very low ebb; many of whom have long since gone to their great rewards; and to the memory of the members of the Parish School Board, the Superintendents of Education; all of whom gave their united support and encouragement; and to our first colored Supervisor, Mr. Modiciah Luke, and to the memory of our late and lamented Principal J. L. Jones, who, through the recommendation of our Supervisor Luke, was to become the first principal of the New Minden Rosenwald School.