RAMSEY : 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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RAMSEY 

In 1875, two brothers, Timothy and Martin Bagley, came to the Prairie 
Greig area of Vermilion Parish and bought 1,800 acres of land, which 
they turned into a flourishing enterprise known as Ramsey Plantation. 

It consisted of an impressive three-story plantation home located on 
the east bank of the Vermilion River, just south of its juncture with 
Young's Coulee, a sugar refinery located downstream from the plantation 
house, a railroad bed across Turkey Island to transport sugar cane from 
the fields to the refinery, a mercantile store, and, from Jan. 28,1884, 
to March 16, 1901, a post office. It was closed in 1901 and combined 
with the post office at Bancker. Martin Bagley was Ramsey's first 
postmaster. 

The post office had been named for Dr. James B. Ramsey, who lived in 
the Young's Coulee area, where he'd moved from Iberia Parish in 1872. 
The doctor became prominent in parish civil and political affairs.