Bienville, LA

Bienville is a parish located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Louisiana. The 2020 census counted 12,981 residents. The parish seat and most populous municipality is Arcadia. The mountain is located on private land with public access by walking trail. The Bienville Parish School Board operates area public schools. The through line in Bienville is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Bienville makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today.

In the 1830s, Ruben Drake moved his family from South Carolina to what he named Mount Lebanon, the first permanent settlement in the parish. As the Drakes were devout Baptists, they established a church and school, which evolved into Mount Lebanon University, the forerunner of Louisiana Christian University in Pineville in Rapides Parish in Central Louisiana. Driskill Mountain is 11 miles south of Arcadia at Latitude 32 degree, 25 minutes North; Longitude 92 degree 54 minutes West.