NUMEROUS SMALL VILLAGES - CALCASIEU PARISH, LA
Contributed by Margaret Rentrop Moore

Source: Southwest Louisiana Biographical & Historical by William
Henry Perrin; published 1891 page 160


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    Goosport is a small village just north of the Southern Pacific Railroad at
Lake Charles. It is situated on the Calcasieu River, and is the seat of the
Bradley-Ramsey Saw Mill and Lumber Company, already noticed in this chapter.
    There are a number of other small villages in the parish, among which are
Esterly, Iowa City, Crown Point, Lakeside, Edgerly, Sulphur City, Evangeline,
Chloe, Lacassine, Rose Bluff, Calcasieu, Lake Arthur, China, Serpent, Killinger,
Meadow, Barnes' Luck, etc. Some of these are merely post-offices, kept at the
house of some farmer, others are post-oflice and store, and sometimes a school
house. Lake Arthur begins to consider itself a town, and started a newspaper
last year (May 22, 1980), the Lake Arthur Herald, by P. M. Kokanour.