Shiloh, 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."

SHILOH

Shiloh was a flag station located a little over two miles south of Amite on the Illinois 
Central Railroad.

Miss Margaret McMichael, a lifelong resident of Amite, relates the following story which she 
heard from her parents: Around 1890 Dr. Le Monnier, a retired coroner from New Orleans, 
purchased from J. Cunningham some land on the east side of the railroad track at the point to 
become known as Shiloh.  Proud to have served in the Confederate army, he named his home 
Shiloh in honor of the famous battle of the Civil War.  At the entrance of the pecan 
tree-shaded lane leading to the house was a sign with one word, SHILOH.

The conveyance records in Amite show that on January 9, 1890, a Dr. Yves Rene Le Monnier 
bought this land from a John Dupree Cunningham.

Today the house is gone, long since consumed in flames; but the site is marked by pecan trees 
growing amidst a Negro tenement section.  A very short distance south of here on the west 
side of the railroad track and on U. S. Highway 51, there is a sign with two words, CLUB 
SHILOH.