Bolivar, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Robert Vernon, Nov., 2000

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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."

BOLIVAR

Bolivar Varnado, the first postmaster of the Bolivar community, named the post office after 
himself when it was established in 1900.

The name Bolivar became very popular with early citizens in the United States who saw in
Simon Bolivar, the South American revolutionary, another George Washington.  Many persons
and places bear this truly American name.  Vistors to New Orleans can see the city's Bolivar 
monument, a gift of Venezuela, at Basin and Canal Streets.

Tangipahoa's Bolivar is at the crossing of La. Highways 440 and 1061, in the corner of T2S-R8E.