Port Union was located on the Ouachita River in southeastern Union Parish, several miles southwest of present-day Sterlington, just south of the Basin of Bayou de Loutre where the Loutre empties into the Ouachita River. On a detailed Union Parish map, if you will follow the river south from Sterlington, the river makes a "pimple" towards the northwest, just before the river ceases to be the eastern boundary of Union Parish. Port Union is located right at that point - the southern base of the "pimple" right where the southeastern boundary of Union Parish changes from the river to the straight line that heads due southwest. Port Union had several cotton warehouses and was quite important for those farmers who lived in near the Loutre, as it was much easier to ship their cotton to New Orleans on the Loutre (when the water was high enough to make it navigable) down to the Ouachita River rather than haul it south to the d'Arbonne and thence towards Trenton (West Monroe). Port Union was an established river port before the war, and I have found it mentioned several times in court records in 1864. There was a post office established there in 1880, but it was discontinued in 1882 with the mail forwarded north to the Ouachita City post office. I have also found records in the 1890s and early 1900s of men working at Port Union and of several large plantations in that area. Does anyone know of a reference to Port Union prior to 1860? Tim Hudson -----Original Message----- From: Fred or Freida Hamilton [mailto:fredh@cox-internet.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 5:20 PM To: LAUNION-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [LAUNION] Port Union, LA Where is Port Union, LA? Thanks, Fred ==== LAUNION Mailing List ==== Visit the Union Parish Archives at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/la/union.htm ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237