Hathaway, Louisiana

Updated July 3, 2010   In these electronic pages you will find a rich history of a rural community where the cultures of Acadians, Creo...

If the question "Where's Hathaway?" is being asked outside of Southwestern Louisiana, the answer probably includes Jennings or...

Updated: November 15, 2008 Many consider Bayou Nezpique the geographical division between Acadiana and Southwestern Louisiana. While this ge...

Updated: November 28, 2008 Open Prairies An early record describing the geography of Southwestern Louisiana, particularly the prairie on the...

Updated December 27, 2009 Settlement It is not very often that a date can be pinpointed for when the settlement of an area begins. Jennings ...

Updated: November 15, 2008 Panchoville was settled as a crossing on Bayou Nezpique, a tributary of the Mermentau River. The name Panchoville...

Updated March 11, 2010 China, in its original location, was a postal stop just west/northwest of Elton on a trail running from Jennings to R...

In 1906, the New Orleans, Texas & Mexican Railroad laid rail parellel to the track that passed through Jennings, except 20 miles to the ...

Located about 10 miles west of Hathaway on Highway 102 at Highway 99 in the center of Jefferson Davis Parish, this farm community was settl...

The first people to settle in the Hathaway area were Acadians who for several generations had been migrating east starting from New Orleans,...

By Mrs. Esther Koll Reeves (summary of interview with Mr. Walker) Mr. Earl C. Walker was born about 1894 in Louisiana. He married his wife, ...

Article from the Jennings Daily News Tuesday, February 21, 1950 Koll Family In Reunion To Mark 50 Years in Jeff Davis By Harvey Laing It was...