Baptist, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Robert Vernon, Nov., 2000 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ >From "Individual Studies of Place Names in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana, James Valsin Coumes, Tangipahoa Parish Resource Unit, Tangipahoa Parish School Board, 1972." BAPTIST The railroad founded this rural community in 1907, and its name is a shortened form for the New Beulah Baptist Church, the church there then and the only church there now.