Lee's Landing (or Lea's Landing), 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."

LEE'S LANDING

About seven miles east of Ponchatoula on Highway 22 are a sawmill and a store.  
Here, on the south side of the highway is a sign which marks the Lee's Landing 
Road.  Down this road three miles from the store, there is a boat landing on the 
Tangipahoa River which was originally Lee's Landing.  Today the Lee's Landing 
community is generally defined as the area within two miles in all directions 
east from the original landing.

The first land owner in the area was Jean Batiste Denelle, who married Mary 
Elizabeth Ouvre.  They owned two sections of land situated in St. Tammany Parish 
on the east bank of the Tangipahoa River.  Shortly before Lavigne died, Mary 
Elizabeth Ouvre Denelle Lavigne sold in 1838 the bottom section of land to 
Alexander Lea, the logger who married Mary May.  Since Lea's logs were ramped at 
his landing before being taken to the mouth of the Tangipahoa River, the place 
came to be called Lea's Landing.  The belief that the landing was named for 
General Robert E. Lee is without foundation.

The original sign designating the community read "Lea Landing."  The present 
sign reads "Lee's."  Perhaps the next sign will read "Lea's Landing."

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Note: Mary Elizabeth Ouvre Denelle m. Antoine Lavigne 11 Sep 1819.  Antoine
died 13 Nov 1839.  Sandra McLellan, priestner@verizon.net