New Orleans, Natalbany & Natchez Railway Company in
St. Helena, Livingston, Tangipahoa, East Feliciana Parishes, Louisiana
File submitted by Mrs. Inez Bridges Tate and prepared by D.N. Pardue

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From publication "Old Montpelier, 1804, New Montpelier, 1904" 
compiled by Inez B. Tate and published by St. Helena Historical
Association, 1993.  Reprinted with permission.

NEW ORLEANS, NATALBANY & NATCHEZ RAILWAY COMPANY
(NON & N)

by
Clark Forrest, Jr.
November 11, 1980

     Although the NON & N was a separate company, its principal

purpose was to provide the sawmill of the NATALBANY LUMBER

COMPANY, LIMITED, at Natalbany, Louisiana, with logs.  Accord-

ing to Judge Leon Ford, III, an authority on local railroads,

it also enjoyed a large freight and passenger business.  The 

NON & N was incorporated on June 4, 1902, and domiciled at Nat-

albany.  The list of incorporators, with the number of shares

of stock they held in the company, follows:

   Caryl B. Young      15
   Henry W. Dakin      15
   Geo. H. Richey      15
   N.R. Smith           2
   Caryl Young          1
   O.M. Dunn            1
   Albert Baldwin       1


This charter is recorded in Mortgage Book No. 15, page 239,

of the Clerk of Court of Tangipahoa Parish.

     On February 4, 1941, the directors voted to file notice

of their decision to dissolve the NON & N Railway Company.  It

was officially dissolved by the Secretary of State on Sep-

tember 16, 1942.

     According to the 1935 Map of Louisiana by the Louisiana

Public Service Commission, The NON & N operated 47 miles of

rail line from Natalbany in Tangipahoa Parish to Slaughter 

in East Feliciana Parish.  

     STATIONS          DISTANCE IN MILES      PARISH LOCATION
                       BETWEEN STATIONS  
     ________          _________________      _______________

Natalbany                      1              Tangipahoa
Mason                          1              Tangipahoa
Addison                        1              Tangipahoa
Woodhaven                      3              Tangipahoa
Little River                   4              Livingston
Johnson (aka Yawn)             2              Livingston
Georgeville                    3              St. Helena
Montpelier                     2 1/2          St. Helena
Story*                         4              St. Helena
Pinegrove                      4              St. Helena
Grangeville                    6              St. Helena
Reimers                                       East Feliciana
Oaknolia                                      East Feliciana
Olive Branch                                  East Feliciana
Slaughter                                     East Feliciana

                 TOTAL MILES  47     

*Shown as Marshall on the 1920 Map of Louisiana by the 
State Railroad Commission.

     The Alluvial Valley Map of the Lower Mississippi River

published by the Mississippi River Commission, Vicksburg, 

Mississippi, in 1935, shows the line extended from Grange-

ville to north of Slaughter.  The stations shown on the

section from Grangeville to Slaughter are:

   Bluff Creek
   Sunbeam
   Blairstown
   Oaknolia

     Judge Ford relates that the NON & N	had extended its line

from Natalbany to the east bank of the Amite River at Grange-

ville by December, 1902.  In 1929, the NON & N was extended

across the Amite to connect with the YAZOO & MISSISSIPPI

VALLEY RAILROAD (Y&MV) north of Baton Rouge near Slaughter.

Judge Ford states that the sawmill burned at Natalbany in 1938.

After which, the railroad was abandoned east of the Amite River.
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