On the Road to Santiago ("La Poste"), Onesse-et-Laharie remains an obligatory stop for tourists and travelers. Built along the gentle slopes of the valleys, numerous streams, including tributaries form the "Onesse" you wait for a nice fishing party. Onesse takes its name from the stream running through it.
Laharie was located on the main road of the Middle Ages, where there was a castle, Castrum Farina. This word seems to designate a farreum, Latin name meaning "barn, granary", so supply station.
Auger de Mauleon was lord of flour (The Harie) in 1261. Later history indicates a Felix de la Baume in 1496. But the card Belleyme to the late 18th century, the castle ruins is indicated on the road from Bayonne to Bordeaux. The former Laharie, everything disappeared.
Onesse is the birthplace of the great composer and musician Claude Duboscq (1897-1938) who implanted in her family estate, the "Bourdon", a popular theater, where after 1927, were played in Christian drama, sung a capella. His friends and sculptors Charlier Sanlaville designed the war memorial in Onesse, artwork of the most poignant symbolism. The writer Christine de Rivoyre, author of Petit Matin, spent his youth in Onesse the forest is part of his novel.
The village economy is based on the forest and its derivatives as well as intensive agriculture cereal.
