Bowling Green, the county seat of Pike County, lies 12 miles from the Mississippi River on a rolling plain, 880 feet above sea level. The first pioneer here, John W. Bayse, came in 1820 and by 1823, the settlement named for Bowling Green, Kentucky succeeded Louisiana as the Pike County Seat of Justice. A large spring providing a plentiful source of water drew the settlers to this area...
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