There is nothing left of Springville. It is the deserted village. In 1874 Mrs. C. Bumgartner opened a store where Beausoliel formerly did business. The Springville Academy was opened by Prof. Paine.
Joseph Bierd, who in 1823 settles near Bayou La Chute, left a valuable property of 2,200 acres to his son, Jerry H. Bierd. The J. M. and J. W. Robinson plantation is a tract to 3,800 acres; the W. F. Hutchinson on of 2,000 acres; the J. V. Hughes, one of 1,400 acres; Capt. William Robson's large plantation below Tone's Bayou; J. Ben Smith, whose settlement dates back to 1850, owns a fertile tract, and A. N. Timon, who owns 1,500 acres, twelve miles above Campti. On his plantation are the mercantile houses of B. Williams and W. A. Oliphant.
Lac Dismure is one of the oldest settlements. There, years ago B. Pierre Grappe located his plantation before the Archies, Bierds or Browns settles hers. His son, Ben G. Grappe, is the present owner of the old homestead.
Brownsville, made notorious in 1874, was the property of Tally Brown, at his death the third man in point of wealth within the parish.
The Atkins Bros. own the Lake End plantation above Brownsville, while Kenilworth, formerly the plantation of H. C. Stringfellow, is a 1,700-acre tract of rich land. The Powell plantation adjoining contains 900 acres. Above is M. A. Cockram's 600-acre tract, then the plantation of Robert Brown and J. B. Pire; Next the 3,000-acre tract of S. Q. Hollingsworth; part of Capt. Marsdon's estate and part of the Thomas Armistead's lands. Ethel plantation, owned by Mrs. O. H. P. Gahagan, is just above Coushatta; then the Russ stock farm, formerly the Greening farm, the old Ben Lee plantation and the Pettywick farm now the property of Judge Egan. Above are the plantations of A. A. Farmer, Thomas Williams, the old Maj. Dixon lands; the 3,524 acres of Emmett T. Robinson (part of which has been in cultivation since 1858), John Murrell's 1,300, Capt. Marston's 7,000 acres (known as Ashland), and William Scarborough's great tract are all well paying farms. Cotton Point a plantation of 5,600 acres (formerly the home of George Robinson, who died in 1879), is now the property of H. C. Stringfellow and Georgia Robinson. In 1888-89 a large lumber and shingle mill was erected at Cotton Point by Robinson and Stringfellow. Twelve miles below Coushatta, on the Natchitoches road, is Cawley's lumber-mill and cotton-press, while at other points small industries are carried on. Throughout the parish are Saline and some fresh-water springs. Deer and wild cat are found in sufficient numbers to entertain the hunter, and the mink, a resident since 1862, appear sometimes in numbers. The minerals of the parish are similar to those of DeSoto and Winn.
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890 Chapter IV