MULVEY : Vermilion Parish Towns & Cities, Louisiana
Submitted by Kathy LaCombe-Tell
Source: Jim Bradshaw; Lafayette (LA) Daily Advertiser, 6/24/1997
Submitted August 2004

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MULVEY 

The station at Mulvey was built just after the turn of the century, 
when the Texas and New Orleans Railroad completed its line from Kaplan 
to Gueydan. 

A small settlement was begun there when Abrom Kaplan, founder of Kaplan 
and a large landholder in the area, had a railroad siding built to 
accommodate a warehouse he'd built to store rice and to handle feed, 
seed. fertilizer, tools, and other needs of his sharecroppers. 

About 1912, L. P. Theriot Sr. moved with his family to Mulvey from 
Gueydan to work as an overseer and business manager for Kaplan's 
holdings. The warehouse closed about 1937 and was later demolished. The 
Theriots returned to Gueydan.