The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The town proper that sprang up in 1892 around a sawmill was named in honor of the manager of the Big Creek Sawmill and Lumber Company, Captain James W. Pollock.
Pollock was for many years a sundown town, a community that did not allow black people to be there after sundown. Historian Herbert Aptheker reported a sign "Niggers stay out of Pollock" at the town's boundary during World War II when he commanded a group of black soldiers nearby. The town's official history notes "the few individuals of African descent" living in the Pollock area left soon after the Colfax massacre. The Louisiana Almanac reported that as late as 1990, Pollock still had no black residents.
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Nothing in Pollock is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Pollock has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Tioga Commissary in Ball, 7.7 miles away.
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