Stop #9 (Avoyelles) Lone Pine, home of Alanson Pearce

(pg. 31) Retrace your path from Lone Pine back down Goudeau Road towards Evergreen. Turn left, and this will return you to Evergreen Main Street. Turn left again and proceed back towards Bunkie. You will turn right to Marksville on Highway #115, turning at a four-way crossing: the Avoyelles Center, a school is on your left. Turn right.
The road leads through the long Town of Hessmer. You will come to Highway 1 at Marksville and a stop light. Go across Highway 1 and follow this street. Main Street, to the Avoyelles Parish Courthouse where Northup was freed in January, 1853. The offices of the Clerk of Court contain Northup papers which you will find in the basement of the Courthouse.