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Bogalusa's Birthplace

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Bogalusa was born in 1906 just west of here on the bank of Bogue Lusa Creek, when tents were set for the first campsite of Great Southern Lumber Co. A portable sawmill was erected to cut lumber to build the town and what became the world's largest sawmill.
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