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unusual facts about Singer Sewing Company



Allen J. Ellender

Early in his tenure, the Audubon Society, with an interest in the ivory-billed woodpecker, which faced extinction, persuaded Ellender to work for the establishment of the proposed Tensas Swamp National Park to preserve bird habitat: 60,000 acres of land owned by the Singer Sewing Company in Madison Parish in northeastern Louisiana.

Mason Spencer

In 1932, Spencer, a sportsman armed with a hunting permit, shot a rare Ivory-billed Woodpecker along the Tensas River on a large tract of swamp forest land owned by the Singer Sewing Company.

Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge

In 1932, Mason Spencer, a state representative from Tallulah, armed with a gun and a hunting permit, shot a rare male Ivory-billed Woodpecker on a large tract of swamp forest land owned by the Singer Sewing Company.


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