Tarvon Swamp, 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.

TARVON SWAMP is located between Albany and Holden south of Highway 190 and

north of the James Chapel Road.  It is shown on the Soil Survey Map of 

Livingston Parish prepared in 1931 by the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils,

U.S. Department of Agriculture.

     No definite information has been obtained thus far on the origin of 

this name.  One possibility is that it originated from a mispronunciation

of "tie-vine."  Mr. William O. "Uncle Bill" Courtney (born 1889) confirmed

that Tarvon Swamp was a very thick place populated by "briars and vines." (1)

---Clark Forrest, Jr.

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(1) Personal interview by Clark Forrest, Holden, La. 70744, with Mr. William
O. Courtney, Holden, La. on November 3, 1974.

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