Depot Agents Serving Montpelier, St. Helena Parish, Lousiana
File submitted by Mrs. Inez Bridges Tate and prepared by D.N. Pardue
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From publication "Old Montpelier, 1804, New Montpelier, 1904" 
compiled by Inez B. Tate and published by St. Helena Historical
Association, 1993.  Reprinted with permission.

     Lee Thompson
     Lorena Thompson Brewer
     Angus K. Tate
     H.M. Bond (Junie)
     Collins Tillery

     These were remembered by Zula Tate Braud, Frances George 

Oliver and Edward Tate.  The above listing may not be the order

in which they served.

     The railroad proved to be a great asset to the community

because in addition to the hauling of logs and strawberries, there

were passenger cars.  Zula T. Braud recalls riding the train a few

times to Natalbany.  The trains were powered by pine knots and

with open window the smoke, ash and cinders blew in to "cover

the riders".  Frances G. Oliver's family would ride the train to

Bluff Creek to attend Bluff Creek Camp Meeting.

     Bill Dykes remembers that as a child when they would be 

working in a field and when they heard the train approach, all

work would cease, they would "line up" by the fence and watch

the train go by.
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