Terry, Louisiana is an
unincorporated community in
West Carroll Parish
West Carroll Parish (french: link=no, Paroisse de Carroll Ouest) is a parish located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,751. The parish seat is Oak Grove. The parish was fo ...
in the
U.S. state of
Louisiana.
[Clare D'Artois Leeper: ''Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries'', ]Louisiana State University Press
The Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) is a university press at Louisiana State University. Founded in 1935, it publishes works of scholarship as well as general interest books. LSU Press is a member of the Association of American Univer ...
, Baton Rouge, La., 2012, pp. 245-246; https://books.google.com/books?id=PCBfDwAAQBAJ, last accessed 1 Mar 2020.[US Geological Survey, "Terry, Louisiana," in the ''Geographic Names Information System'', https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:2:0::NO:RP::, last accessed 1 Mar 2020.] It is on
Louisiana Highway 17
Louisiana Highway 17 (LA 17) is a state highway located in northeastern Louisiana. It runs in a north–south direction from the junction of U.S. Highway 425 (US 425), LA 4, LA 15, and LA 130 in Winnsboro to the Arkan ...
between
Kilbourne and
Oak Grove, on Tiger Bayou and Coleman Bayou
watersheds.
[Google Maps: "Terry LA," https://www.google.com/maps/place/Terry,+LA+71263, last accessed 1 Mar 2020.]
History
Terry was named after the original purchaser of the land on which it is located, James Terry, who came to the area from neighboring
Chicot County, Arkansas in 1835.
[Clare D'Artois Leeper: ''Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries'', ]Louisiana State University Press
The Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) is a university press at Louisiana State University. Founded in 1935, it publishes works of scholarship as well as general interest books. LSU Press is a member of the Association of American Univer ...
, Baton Rouge, La., 2012, pp. 245-246; https://books.google.com/books?id=PCBfDwAAQBAJ, last accessed 1 Mar 2020. The land was primarily used for
agricultural purposes until 1906, when
railroad employees working on a
railway right-of-way established a
camp
Camp may refer to:
Outdoor accommodation and recreation
* Campsite or campground, a recreational outdoor sleeping and eating site
* a temporary settlement for nomads
* Camp, a term used in New England, Northern Ontario and New Brunswick to descri ...
on the property that they called "Terry Camp."
[Clare D'Artois Leeper: ''Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries'', ]Louisiana State University Press
The Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) is a university press at Louisiana State University. Founded in 1935, it publishes works of scholarship as well as general interest books. LSU Press is a member of the Association of American Univer ...
, Baton Rouge, La., 2012, pp. 245-246; https://books.google.com/books?id=PCBfDwAAQBAJ, last accessed 1 Mar 2020. Commercial development serving the community, including a
general store and a
cotton gin
A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine"—is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.. Reprinted by McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1926 (); a ...
, followed, and
houses and a
church were built, forming the community.
[Clare D'Artois Leeper: ''Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries'', ]Louisiana State University Press
The Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press) is a university press at Louisiana State University. Founded in 1935, it publishes works of scholarship as well as general interest books. LSU Press is a member of the Association of American Univer ...
, Baton Rouge, La., 2012, pp. 245-246; https://books.google.com/books?id=PCBfDwAAQBAJ, last accessed 1 Mar 2020.
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Unincorporated communities in Louisiana