Town: Cheneyville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by: Gaytha Carver Thompson
Source:Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
Nashville and Chicago, The Southern Publishing Company 1890



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CHENEYVILLE

Cheneyville in latitude 31 degrees north and longitude 15 degrees west, is one
of the oldest towns in Rapides.  It was charted by the Legislature in 1836. 
In 1816 Beulah Baptist Church was organized at the point with three members,
being the second Protestant or Baptist society in Louisiana, the first being
that at Calvary in Bayou Chicot in 1812.  In 1889 Eiverview Baptist Church was
organized here by Rev. E. O. Ware.  In the history of this parish, of
Alexandria City and of Avoyelles, references are made to the military and
civil history of this old town.  In 1855 Gordy Lodge, A. F. & A. M., was
established here succeeding Hiram Lodge, which surrendered in 1849 after
twenty years work.