Sabine Parish Memoir, Sabine Parish, Louisiana
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"Biographical And Historical Memoirs of Louisiana", Vol. II
The Goodspeed Publishing Company, 1892

Sabine parish is one of rolling uplands, with a long-leaf pine district
in the southeastern corner.  The total area is 1,008 square miles; the
central prairie, 200; the long-leaf pine 150 and the oak upland 658
square miles.  There are several kinds of land in Sabine, but those in
cultivation are generally uplands.  The extreme uplands produce well, and the
hammock and creek bottom lands are very fertile.  The White Sulphur springs,
in the northwestern corner of Sabine, thirty miles from Mansfield, have
been visited by invalids from the earliest times.  Two miles east of Many are
other medicianal springs, while the sulphur springs near Bayou San Patricio
and the tar spring win some favorable notice.  The saline springs and
salt works in the southwestern townships were developed during the war.  A
fair lime rock is found in the Fort Jesup neighborhood, and in very early
days a lime kiln was constructed there.  In 1823, when United States troops
cleared the land for the fort, this kiln was discovered, and therein was
burned the lime used in building the foundations of the houses.  Not far from
the salines, iron ore is found, while lignite exists in several localities. 
The population in 1890 was 9,390.  The settlement of this division of the
state dates back to the second decade of the eighteenth century.  The parish
was established March 27, 1843, and the first record of the police jury is
dated June 19; the first record of the district court, December 25; that of
the parish court, July 3, 1843.  Sabine is justly proud of her war record. 
Many was made seat of justice about the same time.