Bailey, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
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>From "Individual Studies of Place Names in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, James Valsin 
Coumes, Tangipahoa Parish Resource Unit, Tangipahoa Parish School Board, 1972."

BAILEY

Shortly before the end of the nineteenth century and during the early years of the twentieth, 
the village of Bailey, which once had a rural post office, was located about one half mile west 
of the western boundary line of Washington Parish on La. Highway 1057.  It was named for 
Caldwell H. Bailey, the first postmaster, who once owned a gristmill and cotton gin on Big 
Creek.  He also had three sons -- Champ, Monroe, and Otto -- who attended the small Bailey 
schoolhouse.