1851 Opening of Lindville & Re-opening of Ouachita City Post Offices in Eastern Union Parish Louisiana
Submitted by:       Shawn Martin
Date of Submission: 12/2008

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1851 Opening of Lindville & Re-opening of Ouachita City Post Offices in Eastern Union Parish Louisiana

From the New Orleans "Times Picayune"
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 Issue of 15 September 1851
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New Post Offices—Among the new post offices established during the week ending the 
13th inst., are two in the State.  One at Belmont, Sabine parish, Law E. Stephens, 
postmaster, and one at Lindville, Union parish, John S. Barr, postmaster.  The post 
offices at Mooresville, Union parish, and at Routh's point, Concordia parish, have 
been discontinued.
           

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 Issue of 20 November 1851
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The Postmaster General has established a new post office by the name of Ouachita, 
in Union parish, in this State.  James L. Jones, postmaster.

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NOTE by T. D. Hudson:
The Ouachita City post office in Union Parish, located on the Ouachita River a 
few miles north of modern Sterlington, Louisiana, originally opened on 13 March 
1846. It was moved across the river into Ouachita Parish on 11 July 1851, 
and the name changed to "Hamilton". The Postal Commission re-established 
Ouachita City on 3 November 1851. 


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