Take a look at the history of the mysterious Taylortown Town in Northwest Louisiana

Driving south on Highway 71 where it meets La-527, as you come into the town of Taylortown, there sits a mysterious brick tower on the left across the railroad tracks: The Famous Taylortown Tower

It’s sat there for many, many years and, although there is controversy on when the church it belonged to was built, some say around 1906 and some say the 1890s. The Shreveport Times newspaper article had the church, Taylortown Methodist Church, being dedicated on March 4, 1911.

A 1980 Shreveport Journal article by Mary Baldwin reads, “While growing up in McDade, south of Taylortown, I heard many stories about the old tower, and children of that area, delighted in telling anyone inquiring about it the ghost stories relating to the structure. One commonly told was that the church was built shortly before the Civil War by a resident of the area for the marriage of his daughter. However, the story goes, her fiancé was killed in the war, and in her grief, she hung herself from the belfry. It is said that if one goes there at midnight her screams can still be heard.”

The tower is located on private property, so there is no trespassing. We’ve always wanted to do a story on this tower, and when we came across the photos in the Eric Brock collection at the Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS that were taken in 1949, we just knew we had to do it!