McNary, LA

McNary is a village in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States. The 2020 census counted 201 residents. McNary is part of the Alexandria, Louisiana, Metropolitan Statistical Area. When the lumber played out the lumber company purchased a town in Arizona and moved the entire mill operation to what was renamed as McNary, Arizona. The through line in McNary is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. McNary makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. By 1880 railroads were arriving and an industrial lumber boom began in Louisiana. Around 22 million acres were in virgin pine which was 85% of the state's land area.