Blair, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
File prepared by D.N. Pardue



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From the book entitled "The Free State - A History and Place-Names Study
of Livingston Parish" by the members of the Livingston Parish American
Revolution Bicentennial Committee in cooperation with the Livingston 
Parish Police Jury and the Louisiana American Revolution Bicentennial
Commission, 1976.  Reprinted by permission.  Dedicated to the memory of
Reuben Cooper and Raymond Riggs.

BLAIR was a flag stop on the Baton Rouge, Hammond & Eastern Railroad, now

the Illinois Central Gulf, named for a conductor on the line whose last

name was Blair. (1)  This flag stop was located about two miles west of

Albany, where Charles L. Jackson operated a sawmill after the railroad's

completion in 1908.  The mill burned in 1917.  -- Clark Forrest, Jr.
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(1) Personal interview by Clark Forrest, Jr. with Joseph "Joe" S. Jackson
(born 1906) on Feb. 23, 1973.

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