Driving through Jonesville, Louisiana

Jonesville is the largest town in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States, at the confluence of the Ouachita, Tensas, and Little rivers. The three rivers become the Black River at Jonesville.

The Jonesville population was 2,265 at the 2010 census. The parish seat is Harrisonburg to the north, which is even smaller than Jonesville.

The four rivers which intersect near Jonesville are all subject to flooding. There are surrounding soybean and cotton fields. A few plantation houses still stand, reminiscent of the former slavery-based, planter-dominated economy. The population fell significantly when a textile mill shut down in the late 1980s.

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