Mallet's Bluff Oil Field, Livingston Parish, Louisiana File prepared by D.N. Pardue ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** 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. MALLET'S BLUFF OIL FIELD Named for Augustine Mallet, a free man of color who settled the land in 1821, this bluff gave its name to an oil field in Section 49, T8S-R3E. (1) -----Pam Lass ---------- (1) American State Papers, Public Lands, Vol. III, p. 507, list of settlement claims. State Land Office, Baton Rouge. * * * * *