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From: "Hudson, Timothy D" <>
Subject: RE: [LAUNION] Port Union, LA
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 09:44:12 -0400


Port Union was located on the Ouachita River in southeastern Union Parish,
several miles southwest of present-day Sterlington, just south of the Basin
of Bayou de Loutre where the Loutre empties into the Ouachita River. On a
detailed Union Parish map, if you will follow the river south from
Sterlington, the river makes a "pimple" towards the northwest, just before
the river ceases to be the eastern boundary of Union Parish. Port Union is
located right at that point - the southern base of the "pimple" right where
the southeastern boundary of Union Parish changes from the river to the
straight line that heads due southwest.

Port Union had several cotton warehouses and was quite important for those
farmers who lived in near the Loutre, as it was much easier to ship their
cotton to New Orleans on the Loutre (when the water was high enough to make
it navigable) down to the Ouachita River rather than haul it south to the
d'Arbonne and thence towards Trenton (West Monroe).

Port Union was an established river port before the war, and I have found it
mentioned several times in court records in 1864. There was a post office
established there in 1880, but it was discontinued in 1882 with the mail
forwarded north to the Ouachita City post office. I have also found records
in the 1890s and early 1900s of men working at Port Union and of several
large plantations in that area.

Does anyone know of a reference to Port Union prior to 1860?

Tim Hudson

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred or Freida Hamilton [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 5:20 PM
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Subject: [LAUNION] Port Union, LA


Where is Port Union, LA?

Thanks,

Fred


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