Post Offices in the Port Vincent Area, Livingston Parish, Louisiana Postmasters File prepared by D.N. Pardue ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** From the French Settlement Historical Register, published by the French Settlement Historical Society, French Settlement, Louisiana 70733. The LaGenWeb Archives thanks them for contributing this information. Vol. 2, December 1977 NAME OF POST OFFICE REMARKS NAME OF POSTMASTERS DATES Port Vincent Established John J. Buck 28 Feb. 1833 Changed to Beech Hill 28 May 1835 Beech Hill Formerly Port Vincent David Felder 28 May 1835 Discontinued 23 Aug 1842 Coelk Established Joseph P. Ligon 28 Dec 1848 James W. Stewart 9 Apr 1850 Wm. J. Gates 1 Nov 1850 Benjamin Singletary 19 Oct 1852 Otis H. Felder 5 Aug 1853 Wm. J. Gates 21 Apr 1854 Jesse T. Felder 21 Mar 1855 Baxter Felder 16 Oct 1857 Lewis Watson 7 June 1858 Rufus K. Felder 11 June 1866 Joseph Scivicque 16 July 1866 Levi Spiller 27 July 1871 Discontinued - name changed to Port Vincent Port Vincent Formerly Coelk Levi Spiller 27 Jan 1874 Well (?) H. Merritt 27 Sept 1881 Delimeer C. Leftwich 8 June 1886 Burnice(?) Singletary 17 Oct 1890 Thomas S. Leftwich 14 May 1903 Henry H. Denham 23 Feb 1906 Roy Leftwich 27 Nov 1906 Hugh Jenks 5 Dec 1910 Henry B. Berthelot 31 Dec 1937 Discontinued Mail to Denham Springs 28 Feb 1954 Source: Compiled by Clark Forrest, Jr., from postal records located in the National Archives, Washington, D.C., 20408, in Record Group 28 on July 26, 1974.