Tickfaw, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana
Submitted to the USGenWeb Archives by Sandra McLellan, Aug., 2000

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

Tickfaw

"Pine rest" is the meaning of Tickfaw according to William Read's
first analysis.  It derives from a contraction of the Choctaw
words tiak, "pine," and foha, "rest" or "ease."

On the other hand, the revised edtion of Read's Louisiana-French,
published posthumously in 1968 and containing a section on Indian
placenames, reveals a correction.  The short entry reads: "TICKFAW,
>From Choctaw poa, "wild beasts," a, "there," and tikafa, "shed their 
hair."  His final translation of Tickfaw is, therefore, "wild beasts
there shed their hair."

The Tickfaw River heads in Mississippi, flows south through the
parishes of St. Helena and Livingston, and empties into Lake Maurepas.

The village of Tickfaw is located between Independence and Natalbany
on U.S. Highway 51.