McNary is a village in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, United States.

McNary was established as a company lumber town that grew to a population of around 3,000 with a hospital, several stores, a theater, and even a pool.

By 1880 railroads were arriving and an industrial lumber boom began in Louisiana.

Around 22 million acres were in virgin pine which was 85% of the state's land area.

There were also large virgin Cyprus stands but these were mainly in swamp or coastal marsh lands.

The Cady Lumber Company purchased the Apache Lumber Company, Ponderosa Pine leases, the Apache Railway, and the sawmill in Cooley, Arizona, then moved the entire McNary mill with people in a twenty-one coach train.

After the lumber mill left the area the community struggled but did not become a ghost town.