Bourgeois Landing Post Office, 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.

BOURGEOIS LANDING POST OFFICE was established on Sept. 22, 1875 and was

discontinued on April 11, 1878.  Three months later, July 25, 1878, the 

Whitehall post office was established, having as its postmaster John A.

Porter, the first and only postmaster of Bourgeois Landing.

     Bourgeois Landing no doubt owes its name to one of the early settlers

of the same name.  One S. LeBourgeois is mentioned in the June8, 1875

minutes of the Livingston Parish Police July. (Minute Book 1, page 10).

Poster, LeBourgeois and A.C. Miller contracted to lay out roads in the

Whitehall area, according to the minutes. --- Clark Forrest, Jr.

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