Do you know of Fort Jessup ???This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Fort Jessup. 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 Fort Jessup.<1> Our sources for Fort Jessup (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 Fort Jessup other than they indicate that Fort Jessup would be found somewhere in Sabine Parish, Louisiana. Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Fort Jessup ...We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Fort Jessup: Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Fort Jessup - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851)
More Orphans in Sabine 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 Sabine Parish.
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