Velma, 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."

VELMA

Velma was a stop on the Illinois Central Railroad between Shiloh and Independence.  

According to Mr. J. T. Mashburn a conductor on the railroad was responsible for the name.  It 
was sometimes part of the conductor's job to name a stop.  If the name "caught on" the 
problem was solved.  Velma could have been either named haphazardly or for some definite 
reason known only by the conductor.