JENNINGS, LA then - CALCASIEU PARISH, LA
Contributed by Margaret Rentrop Moore

Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical & Historical by William
Henry Perrin; published 1891 page 158 - 159.


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     COUNTRY TOWNS.-Jennings is the most important town in Calcasieu parish,
outside of Lake Charles. It is situated on the Southern Pacific Railroad, near
the line between Calcasieu and Acadia parishes, and is a new town 
comparatively. In 1880 it was rated at only twenty-five inhabitants. Now it has
some four or five hundred. Jennings stands in the midst of a fine shipping
section, where rice is the principal crop, and the Reporter estimates that not
less than four hundred car loads of that product alone was shipped from that
point last year. Many Northwestern people live around the town of Jennings-in
fact, the community is principally settled by those enterprising and pushing
people, who have come here to enjoy the healthful climate and rich lands. The
place has a church or two, several stores, a post-office, a newspaper, the
Jennings Reporter, edited and published by Messrs. Cary & Son, now entered upon
its third volume; a new and elegant school house, in which is taught for the
usual term a graded school. To sum up, it is a live, wide-awake and enterprising
business town.