Mason, 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."

MASON

Mason, the first station on the New Orleans, Natalbany & Natchez Railroad, was located one 
mile west of the Illinois Central Railroad station at Natalbany.  It was a regular stop on the 
railroad, there being a supply house and a hotel at this point.

Jesse O. Stamps, a former employee of the Natalbany Lumber Company who now lives in New 
Orleans, said that it was named for John Mason (originally from Illinois or Iowa), the sales 
and credit manager of the Natalbany Lumber Company at that time.