Bryant, Thank you for taking the time to research Ryanville. Yes, I am familiar with Pam Rietsch's excellent site at: http://www.livgenmi.com/1895 and also with Ray Sterner's maps of the same 1895 Color Landform Atlas (Rand McNally) at: http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html (Ray is a coworker at JHU/APL! http://www.jhuapl.edu He has produced a CD-ROM of his maps, and sells it for a nominal fee just to cover costs.) Pam's site has the benefit of an excellent index of towns and a choice of downloading either the state map (very large download for most people) or the individual counties/parishes. My guess is that Ryanville was a transient sawmill town/camp, somewhere near Edgewood -- which is on the map you referenced. It obviously did not have a Post Office or a train station! I have also looked in the US Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) database, but it's not there either. This question has been on my "back burner" for a while now, and I guess that's where it will stay for now! Thanks again for your assistance, Walt LCHS Class of '58 Rockville, Maryland whrauser@erols.com rauser@jhuapl.edu > Subject: Re: Where was Ryanville, LA, circa 1889? > Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 08:45:06 EST > From: Safewalker@aol.com > To: LACALCAS-L@rootsweb.com > > Walt > > You probably have checked this out, but I looked at an 1895 Atlas map of > Louisiana and could not find Ryanville. Here is the URL in case I missed it. > It is an interesting map. Ryanville may have been a very small community not > "worthy" of being listed on the maps of the time. You can get an index to > towns and cities from the home page. > > Good Luck > Bryant Walker > ------------------------ > <A HREF="http://www.livgenmi.com/la1895mp">Louisiana 1895 Map Addendum</A> > > ______________________________