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Do you know of Lena Station ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lena Station. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Lena Station.

Our sources for Lena Station (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Lena Station other than they indicate that Lena Station would be found somewhere in Rapides Parish, Louisiana.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1886 and closed  in 1950.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lena Station ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lena Station:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Lena Station - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

Rand McNally Map of Louisiana (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Rapides Parish ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Rapides Parish.

Airview TerraceHickory Grove
Alexandria SouthwestHood Camp
Asher 
 Lakeside
Babb's BridgeLamothe
BennettvilleLamourie Bridge
BruceLong Leaf
 Loyds Bridge
Camelia Gardens 
Camp BeauregardMallin
Castle VillageMartin Park
Chandler ParkMoorland
Charles Park 
Cherokee VillageOsborn
Chickama 
CloverPaul
CornstalkPlaisance
Cotile 
 South Park
De SelleSycamore
Dyer 
 Tanglewood
EnglandTaylor Hill
 Texmo Junction
Flowerton 
 Walnut Hill
GodwinWelchton
Grundy CooperWestside
GumWilshire Park
 Woodside

Footnotes ...

<1>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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