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Dixie Inn is a village in Webster Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 352 at the 2000 census. It is located off Interstate 20 at the old Shreveport Road, some twenty-six miles east of Shreveport. Minden, the seat of Webster Parish, is located some two miles to the east. Dixie Inn is part of the Minden Micropolitan Statistical Area. Most of the original houses in Dixie Inn were built during World War II to serve munitions workers at the former Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant located off U.S. Highway 80 to the east. Dixie Inn was incorporated in 1956. Clyde A. Stanley (1910–1959) became the first mayor of the village, having defeated James Whit "Tinker" Volentine (1915–1982) by a vote of 69-54. All but seven of the registered voters participated in the election.〔''Minden Herald'', June 13, 1957, p. 1〕 ==Historic Antioch Baptist Church== The Antioch Baptist Church in Dixie Inn was first established in September 1858 as the Gum Spring Church, named for a natural spring near the site of what became in the next century the Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant. The church moved eastward to the existing site effective February 25, 1872, with the Reverend John Dupree as the first part-time pastor. Antioch observed a centennial ceremony on that same day in 1972. In 1882, fire destroyed the building and all church records. The structure was rebuilt and new rooms were added over the years. In 1943, the church called J. R. Hearron as its first full-time pastor.〔"Antioch Baptist Church Celebrating 100th Year", ''Minden Press-Herald'', February 23, 1972, pp. 1, 8〕 In 1957, Antioch opened a new brick-veneer sanctuary, the planning of which had been undertaken during the tenure of pastor Millard Robert Perkins, Sr. (1918–1979), a native of Glenmora in Rapides Parish. However, the construction was not completed until the summer of 1957, by which time Thomas E. Windsor had become the pastor. On October 20, 1957, a few months after the construction of the new sanctuary, all of the church buildings except the pastor's residence were razed by fire. Reconstruction soon began and was completed in October 1959. Since Hearron, the full-time Antioch pastors have included Cecil Basham, J. Guy Allen, Millard Perkins, Thomas Windsor, Jack Edwin Byrd, Sr., Charles W. Wallace, and Malcolm Self (1937-2015).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Malcolm Self obituary )〕 Wayne Reeves was called from Antioch as a pastor in Many, Louisiana.〔 The current pastor (2013) is Keith Adams.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Antioch Baptist Church of Minden )〕 Millard Perkins was a graduate of East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, Texas, and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary and had been the pastor of several congregations in Texas and Louisiana, including the Gilgal Baptist Church, originally established in 1842 and based in a 1947 sanctuary located on the Old Arcadia Road near Minden.〔"Gilgal's name found in Joshua", ''Minden Press-Herald'', August 1, 1986, p. 11B〕 Prior to his death of a heart attack, he operated Perkins Grill in downtown Minden. He was survived by his wife, the former Pearl Buxton, and five children. Perkins is interred at Memorial Park Cemetery in Monroe, Louisiana.〔"Perkins rites are today", ''Minden Press-Herald'', November 30, 1979, p. 1〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dixie Inn, Louisiana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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