VINTON, 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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    Vinton is situated upon the western border of Calcasieu parish some six
miles east of Sabine river. The traveler upon the Southern Pacific Railroad will
note a charming belt of prairie, picturesque, deep soiled and rolling. Here
Messrs. Horrige, Eddy and Stevinson, of Benton county, lowa , have located the
pretty town of Vinton, and nicely  graded its broad streets. It has a position
of commanding commercial importance, only six miles to the Sabine, navigable for
three hundred miles, and with the bar at the mouth improved for the passage of
ocean steamers, and nine miles southeasterly to tide water on  Bayou Choupique,
which flows into the Calcasieu river. North is a vast forest of yellow pine,
which can best be penetrated by a railroad from Vinton. C. P. Hampton has
erected a large saw-mill at this place, and will build a railroad to his timber.
This town presents special attraction to Northern settlers. Good lands can be
purchased in the vicinity at from three to five dollars per acre.