WPA Road, 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.

WPA ROAD, also known as the Hoover Road, is located three miles north of

Albany.  It is a north-south blacktopped road about two and one-quarter 

miles in length which connects on the south with the east-west Natalbany

Road (La. Hwy. 1064) and on the north with the east-west Tickfaw Raod

(La. Hwy. 442.)

     The WPA road parallels the Little Natalbany River along its east bank,

and intersects the Tickfaw Road at the Zion Hill Baptist Church, which

was organized in 1873.

     According to Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Hoover, the road was constructed

during the Depression by the WPA (Works Progress Administration); hence

its name.  Many local wags referred to the WPA as We Piddle Around.  The

road has the distinctive engineering feature of being straight for roughly

one and one-quarter miles of southern length, while the remainder has the 

typical curves which were made by early settlers following the ridge.

     Since the Hoovers still live along the road, many people refer to the

road as the Hoover Road.  --- Clark Forrest, Jr.

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