October 16, 2007

Joseph W. Bocage was a prominent businessman and community leader in Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) during the nineteenth century. He was a farmer, lumber milll owner, judge, and mayor of Pine Bluff. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, he raised one of the county’s two Confederate companies. Later, he served as an officer in the Second Arkansas Infantry. In 1886, he used lumber from his own mill to construct a Greek Revival home which, in 1974, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.