Fred was an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
East Baton Rouge Parish,
Louisiana
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, United States. The community is now part of
Zachary.
History
The community was founded on December 7, 1894 by Eunice Rodriguez Wicker, and is named after a man named Fred Weiss who was the first postmaster. The post office was also the local
general store
A general merchant store (also known as general merchandise store, general dealer, village shop, or country store) is a rural or small-town store that carries a general line of merchandise. It carries a broad selection of merchandise, someti ...
. Much of the land within the village of Fred was used for the production of cotton. There were two
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 (); ...
on the SE side of Plank Road, which were steam operated. The nearby community of
Weiss, Louisiana was also named after Fred Weiss.
References
Unincorporated communities in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Unincorporated communities in Louisiana
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