Robert, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
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From Tangipahoa Centenial Book, 1869-1969: 
Donated to the archives by the Tangipahoa Parish Tourist Commission

Robert

About six or seven miles east of Hammond on U.S. Highway 190 is Robert, 
a community with a post office, once a regular stop on the Baton Rouge, 
Hammond & Eastern Railroad.

Robert is an abbreviated form of the family name Robertson.  Before the 
days of the railroad, William Holden Robertson and his family settled
in the region.  The closest neighbor to the Robertsons was about a 
mile away.  When the railroad reached this point about 1906, going
east, someone suggested that the station be called Riverdale; but
since the depot was to be located on William H. Robertson's land,
the owner of the property said it should be named Robert.  The name
was shortened because of the railroad's preference for uniformity
and simplicity in naming.  The stops east of Hammond in Tangipahoa 
Parish became Coburn, Bankston, Breckwoldt, Robert, and Lorraine,
all names containing two syllables.

The population of Robert in 1960 was about 150.