List of ghost towns in Louisiana

This is an incomplete List of ghost towns in Louisiana. Also includes old sawmill towns.

  • Albany
  • Alco: Sawmill town (Longleaf area) on LA 465 east of La 117.[1]
  • Alma
  • Anchor
  • Ashmore, Louisiana: Sawmill town west of Glenmora on Ashmore road.[2]
  • Atchafalaya
  • Barham, Louisiana: Sawmill town, south of Hornbeck on Highway 171. The town was founded when the sawmill of W. R. Pickering began operation.[3]
  • Benson, Louisiana: On the KCS line (and hwy 171) south of Mansfield and north of Converse.
  • Hutton, Louisiana: Sawmill town between Alco and Seiper on La 465.[9]
  • Kurthwood: Sawmill town, north of Leesville, just off LA 117 on La 465, east of historic Alco[10]
  • La Balize
  • Lecompte: Sawmill town and location of the Pegram Plantation House
  • Laurel Valley Village:[11]
  • Lockport Junction, Louisiana: On the KCS line between Lake Charles and DeQuincy on hwy 27.
  • Longleaf (Long Leaf): Sawmill town that includes the 57 acres (23 ha) "Southern Forest Heritage Museum".[12][13] Located on LA 497, that parallels U.S. 165 between Glenmora and Forest Hill.[14]
  • Longville: Sawmill town
  • Loring, Louisiana: Located on the KCS line between Zwolle and Many on Hwy 171.
  • McNary, Louisiana: Sawmill town on LA 497. Borders the city limits of Glenmora.[15]
  • Meridian, Louisiana: Sawmill town
  • Morrisonville
  • Neame, Louisiana (previously known as Keith): Sawmill town that resulted from the building of a sawmill by the Central Coal & Coke Company of Kansas City, Missouri. Located 3.8 miles (6.1 km) north of Rosepine the mill property was situated on both sides of current US 171. An abandoned cemetery with 24 identifiable graves, among forest trees on a tract of land on the west side of the highway below the W.D. Chip Mill, and a decayed cemetery and sawmill pond on the east side of the highway, is all that remains of the town.[16]
  • Pawnee, Louisiana: Swamill town 5.5 miles NNE of Oakdale on U.S. Route 165.[17]
  • Peason, Louisiana: Sawmill town with a peak population of from 1500 to 2000, located on LA 118 north of Peason Ridge Wildlife Management Area. In 1916, A.J. Peavy partnered with R.J. Wilson to form Peavy and Wilson Lumber Company.[18] The mill and company town of Peavy was built from lumber brought in by oxen from D.B. Pate sawmill, near the turpentine camp of Shutts, located near the northeastern corner what is now Hodges Gardens, and was completed by late 1918. The Christie and Eastern railroad spur, ran from Sandel on the Kansas City Southern Railroad line approximately twelve miles to the mill site. A line was extended east to connect with the Red River and Gulf Railroad at Kurthwood, with connections to Lecompte. When the mill cut-out it took longer than normal for the town to completely die off.[19] The community of Peason was also the site of the mock Great Louisiana Maneuvers of 1941[20]
  • Pickering, Louisiana: On the KCS line, south of Leesville at the intersection of Louisiana hwy 10. Founded and named after W.R. Pickering
  • Pitkin, Louisiana.
  • Red River Landing
  • Ruddock
  • Seiper, Louisiana: Sawmill town located on LA 465[21]
  • Sherburne
  • Taft
  • Torras
  • Turner, Louisiana: One the KCS line between Dequincy, Louisiana and Lake Charles, Louisiana on LA 27.
  • Victoria, Louisiana: Sawmill town that began small about 1882, was purchased by the Louisiana Longleaf Lumber Company in 1898, that had a sawmill in Fisher, and the population grew to 1500. The mill cut-out in 1936.[22] Boise Cascade bought the mill in 1966.
  • Ward, Louisiana: Sawmill town.
  • Waterloo

General references

Red River and Gulf Railroad
  • The Red River and Gulf Railroad later the Missouri Pacific Railroad (MP) then Union Pacific Railroad (UP) ran from Longleaf (Long Leaf) Junction to Forest Hill, Holdup, Togo, and then LeCompte on the Texas & Pacific Railroad (later MP then UP). Southeast the line ran from Longleaf: Louisiana Junction, Audebert, Cocodrie, Causey, and ending at the Rock Island in Mederain. To the northeast from Longleaf: The RR&G went to Big Cut, Melder, Bliss, Elmelhine, Lewiston, Walding, Stille, Hood, Comrade, Mathis, Hutton, Alco, Dusenbury, and ending in Kurthwood.[23]


Notes and references
  1. Alco
  2. Google maps: Ashmore
  3. Barham- Retrieved 2017-12-03
  4. Chasmore- Retrieved 2017-12-03
  5. Google books: The Pelican Guide to Louisiana- (by Sternberg, Mary Ann pp. 48) Retrieved 2017-12-03
  6. Fisher Sawmill Days-Retrieved 2017-12-03
  7. Gandy- Retrieved 2017-12-03
  8. Google Maps; Hawthorn- Retrieved 2017-12-03
  9. Hutton- Retrieved 2017-12-03
  10. Kurthwood- Retrieved 2017-12-03
  11. Laurel Valley Village- Retrieved 2017-12-03
  12. Local Lagacies: Southern Forest Heritage Museum- Retrieved 2017-12-03
  13. Haunted Nation: Longleaf
  14. Longleaf- Retrieved 2017-12-03
  15. Google maps: McNary
  16. Neame: Archive of 1912 American Lumber Register- Retrieved 2018-11-28
  17. Pawnee- Retrieved 2017-12-03
  18. SFASU Heritage Center: Peavy Wilson Lumber Company of Peason
  19. US War Archives: Peason
  20. SFASU Heritage Center: The Battle of Mount Carmel- Retrieved 2017-12-03
  21. Google maps: Seiper- Retrieved 2017-12-03
  22. Victoria: Boise Cascade- Retrieved 2017-12-03
  23. Red River and Gulf Railroad- Retrieved 2017-12-03
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