Port Union Post Office, Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 8/2004


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Early Postmasters of Port Union Post Office, Union Parish Louisiana
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SOURCE:
Records of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832 – September 30, 1971, located in the 
National Archives, identifed as Record Group 28, Microfilm Publication M841, 
Reels #51 & 52. 

T. D. Hudson transcribed this information from the original records and donated 
it to the Union Parish Archives in August 2004. 

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PORT UNION POST OFFICE ESTABLISHED:
    8 November 1880


HISTORY OF PORT UNION POST OFFICE:
    Office discontinued on 15 February 1882, with mail forwarded to Ouachita City    


POSTMASTERS:

Port Union
William P. Smith, 8 Nov 1880 - 14 Feb 1882 

     [Office discontinued on 15 Feb 1882, with mail forwarded to Ouachita City.]

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COMMENTS:

Port Union was located in Section 3, Township 19 North, Range 3 East on the Ouachita 
River near Parker's Landing. It is just downriver from the mouth of Bayou D'Loutre. 
By the 1860s, it was already an important landing for farmers who lived along Bayou 
Loutre east of Farmerville. They apparently shipped their cotton to Port Union, 
where it was stored in warehouses for shipment to New Orleans to be sold. All that 
remains today is an abandoned cemetery.



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