Caroline Coroneos Dormon was born on July 19, 1888, at Briarwood, her family's summer home, and died on November 23, 1971, in Shreveport, Louisiana. A descendant of Gaspar Joseph Trotti, a South Carolina patriot in the American Revolutionary War, she was an American teacher, author, artist, botanist, conservationist, preservationist, ethnologist, naturalist, horticulturalist, historian, and archaeologist. She was widely honored for her accomplishments, is credited with the founding of Kisatchie National Forest, and named it after its first inhabitants. Caroline Dormon lived her life at Briarwood, and her legacy continues there because she willed her lifelong home and land for future generations to enjoy.