Dave Rachal’s House
Status: Closed
Parish: Rapides
Location: Lena
Mentioned in “Louisiana Fiddlers” by Ron Yule and Bill Burge: Dave Rachal held a house dance in the early 1920s where a fight broke out and a fiddle was broken over a man’s head- Dave Rachal gave the fiddle to six year old Ray Beebe, who repaired it and learned to play on it.