Echoes From The Attic and Poems, Happy Land, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Don Johnson, Dec. 2000
Typed by Belford Carver
Written by by Edna F. Campbell
Copyrighted by Edna F. Campbell
With special thanks to her family for permission to use her works.

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HAPPY LAND'N

PLEASANT RIDGE SUBDIVISION LAID OUT IN HORSESHOE SEMBLANCE

Visions of a budding Utopia could have prompted the name given "Pleasant Ridge," 
southeast subdivision in Hammond, initiated by the enterpriser, Mr. Eldridge Carroll in 
the mid 1920s.  Furthering the thought was the layout shaped in semblance of a 
horseshoe, a symbol of good fortune, and a happy land.

Pleasant Ridge is located about a mile from the city limits just off the Old Covington 
Highway, having two road entrances.  Increasing the acreage site in recent years is the vast 
extension beyond the original framework.

Three families recorded among the very earliest settlers were Mr. And Mrs. Hugh Smith, 
who still live in the same home; Mr. And Mrs. T. R. Thames, and Mr. And Mrs. H. S. 
Brittan.  They acquired their land plots around 1926.  The Meritt family was also named 
among early owners.  Mrs. Peter Ebrecht, one of the daughters of the Merritts, still has a 
home in Pleasant Ridge.

The Smiths are well known in the educational fields as Mrs. Smith ws a member of the 
faculty in the English department at Southeastern College, and Mr. Smith, a Veterans' 
Counselor in New Orleans.  Mr. And Mrs. Thames, (now deceased) had formerly resided 
on West Colorado Street.  Mr. Thames was an executive claim agent with the Natalbany 
Lumber Company.  Mr. Brittan, (also now deceased), was an employee of the Louisiana 
Power and Light Company.  The Thames' homesite was formerly owned by the Crouses.  
As related by local historians a large section of Pleasant Ridge had been the property of 
the Louis Crouse family.

Among the names frequently associated with early arrivals in the section are Bob Pickett, 
Joe Perkins, Flanagrans, E. E. White, Flanagan and Gideons.  Numerous families have 
built appealing and pretentious homes in recent years.  In a background of natural beauty 
this rea is one of Hammond's most attractive residential sections.

(From ECHOES FROM THE ATTIC AND POEMS, II, 1967, by Edna F. Campbell)