Beauregard Parish Museum

Housed in the 1927 Union Pacific depot, the Beauregard Parish Museum is the only place in west Louisiana that treats the timber boom and the Louisiana Maneuvers as one connected story. The depot itself is the artifact — saw-cut longleaf pine beams, the original ticket window, the baggage scale still sitting on the platform. Inside, the collection runs from Adaeseño-era Spanish coins pulled from Sabine Parish fields to Jeep parts recovered from the 1941 Louisiana Maneuvers, with a room devoted to the timber barons who built DeRidder and the one-lung sawmills that vanished with them. Volunteer-run, donation-based, and better than it has any right to be.