Chesbrough, 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."

CHESBROUGH

In 1902 there were three or four one-room schoolhouses in the community known as 
Chesbrough.  "Chesbrough Brothers, a large northern timber syndicate, who owned great tracts 
of land in this section of the parish," promised to give lumber for a new schoolhouse if these 
separate schools would consolidate.  When the large four-room school was erected its name 
became Chesbrough, thereby honoring Mr. A. M. Chesbrough of Toledo, Ohio, one of the 
brothers in the syndicate who helped to further education.

Chesbrough is about four miles southeast of the village of Tangipahoa on La. Highway 1054.