Grangeville, Louisiana

Grangeville is an unincorporated community in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, United States. The community is located 5 miles (8.0 kilometres) northwest of Pine Grove and 11 miles (18 kilometres) west of Montpelier.

Grangeville, Louisiana
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 30°44′33″N 90°50′01″W
Country	United States
State	Louisiana
Parish	St. Helena Parish
Elevation [1]	128 ft (39 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code	70422
Area code(s)	225, 985
GNIS feature ID	560885[1]
FIPS code	22-31040

Etymology

In 1916 the New Orleans, Natalbany and Natchez Railway built a line that terminated in the community. The railroad was being used for transporting local timber 28 miles (45 kilometres) southeast to a large sawmill in Natalbany. A local barn was converted into a cooperative business that housed a general store, blacksmith, two doctors, a pharmacy and a brickyard. The railroad named the community after the barn that was converted into a store. The name of the community is borrowed from the word grange which means 'barn' and is derived from Old French.[2][3][4]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Grangeville, Louisiana
2. Clare D’Artois Leeper (19 October 2012). Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries. LSU Press. pp. 280–. ISBN 978-0-8071-4740-5.
3. Louisiana. Railroad Commission (1920). Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of Louisiana. pp. 1–.
4. Tony Howe; David S. Price. "Mississippi Rails". Retrieved 7 December 2019.