Mayor James "Mack" McGehee 

Bogalusa Council Meetings are held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month
in the court room of Bogalusa City Hall, located at, 202 Arkansas Avenue, Bogalusa, LA 70427
with a normal start time of 5:30 p.m. subject to change.

For more information contact the Bogalusa City Council at 985-732-6202.

 Welcome to the MAGIC CITY  

Among Louisiana cities, there perhaps is none whose short history is more interesting and unique than that of the City of Bogalusa. The very name "Bogalusa" is copyrighted. "The Magic City", "The Green Empire", — slogans of past years, are as appropriate today as they were when the axe felled the first tree to carve from a virgin pine forest the community destined to be one of the leading industrial cities of the South.

Bogalusa is situated on the eastern border of Washington Parish in the "Florida Parishes" section of Louisiana on the Pearl River (the dividing line between Louisiana and Mississippi), and is the chief manufacturing and trading center of the Pearl River valley (see map). Reputed to have been the largest un-incorporated community in the nation at that time, Bogalusa was incorporated July 4, 1914, with a commission form of government.

The name "Bogalusa" is derived from the Indian named creek "Bogue Lusa", which flows through the city, the definition of which is smoky or dark waters. Bogalusa owes its birth to the enterprise of the Goodyear interests of Buffalo, New York, who established the lumber industry here in 1906, and erected the Great Southern Lumber Company plant. This plant became the largest pine sawmill in the world. Today  Temple-Inland Inc. ranks as one of the outstanding manufacturers of pulp, paper, boxes, bags and other paper products in the nations.

Picture from the Past

 

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EMERGENCY ANNOUNCEMENTS

Office Of Homeland Security

and Emergency preparedness

Washington Parish 985-732-5200