Louisiana Southern Railway

The Louisiana Southern Railway Company (LS) was a railroad in southern Louisiana, chartered in 1897 as successor to several short lines which had operated along the Mississippi River, including Mississippi, Terre aux Boeuf, and Lake; New Orleans and Gulf; and New Orleans and Southern, that eventually became part of the Southern Railway system.[1]

The Railway was originally owned jointly by Franklin (Frank) Emery Prewett (1872-1936) and his half-brother, Granville Prewett (1896-1973).[2] both of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Frank was the son of Vernal Franklin Prewett (1841-1911), of West Virginia, then Tennessee, and his first wife, Susan C. Ross (c. 1850-1878). [3] Granville was the son of Vernal Franklin Prewett and, apparently, his second spouse, Emma Lucy Ross. In 1907, the elder Prewett then married Ardelia (Della) Bowers, later Gooch (1868-1916). [4]

The LS Railway served the truck farms, or large-scale market gardens, of the Mississippi Delta throughout the Great Depression.

In 1952, Southern bought the 15-mile line, running along the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Braithwaite.[5]

References
  1. Hawkins Rails Shortlines: "Louisiana Southern Railway Company", accessed September 1, 2017.
  2. United States Railroad Labor Board (1923). Decisions of the United States Railroad Labor Board with Addenda and Interpretations: 1920[-1925] With an Appendix Showing Regulations of the Railroad Labor Board, and Court and Administrative Decisions and Regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission in Respect to Title III of the Transportation Act, 1920... U.S. Government Printing Office.
  3. Kidmundy Historical Society Evergreen Cemetery Kinmundy, Marion County, IL
  4. R.A. Prewitt PREWITT - PRUITT RECORDS OF VIRGINIA, by Richard A. Prewitt, Family History Library, page 231, accessed September 1, 2017.
  5. Tom Murray. Southern Railway. Voyageur Press. pp. 105–. ISBN 978-1-61060-509-0.
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