Mules for Sale near Plain Dealing, LA

About Plain Dealing, LA

Prior to 1839, the United States government forcibly removed the Caddo Nation of Native Americans—longtime local inhabitants who had first settled the area over 1,000 years before Europeans' 16th-century arrival in mainland North America—from the area of Northern Louisiana that included the parcel that would later become the town of Plain Dealing. In 1839, George Oglethorpe Gilmer and his son, James Blair Gilmer, bought 5,000 acres of this land—now described as a "vast, unsettled wilderness"—from the United States government, calling a portion of this acreage "Plain Dealing" after the family's Virginia plantation. The "Plain Dealing" name became official when the town was formally chartered on April 24, 1890. Notable points of more recent history include the following: Plain Dealing recorded the state's hottest temperature ever, 114 °F (46 °C), on August 10, 1936 (see "Climate" section below). The Plain Dealing Post newspaper was established in the 1980s by publisher Danny D.