Denham Springs, Louisiana Denham Springs, Louisiana Denham Springs City Old Denham Springs City Hall Location of Denham Springs in Louisiana Denham Springs is a town/city in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States.
As of the 2010 census, Denham Springs and Walker are the only church municipalities classified as cities. The region has been known as Amite Springs, Hill's Springs, and Denham Springs. The initial land claims of John Noblet and Alexander Hogue form what is now the older section of Denham Springs, including the first residentiary and company districts.
In 1828, William Denham, a Wilkinson County, Mississippi, native, married Mercy Hogue, the daughter of Alexander Hogue; and three months he later purchased the 640 acres (2.6 km2) originally claimed by his father-in-law. Denham purchased the territory and a slave for $1,350. This belief defies logic, however, considering the number of springs which may be found in this region even today, and the length of time that elapsed before Denham arrived.
It was in the 1850s that Amite Springs became synonymous with the region that is now Denham Springs. On May 1, 1855, Denham sold the Hogue tract to Stamaty Covas of New Orleans for $3,050, and Denham eventually moved to Baton Rouge and to Texas. Apparently amid the time Covas owned the Hogue-Denham tract, and before the Civil War, a community resort did flourish at Amite Springs as the hamlet was known at the time.
According to the 1882 act of sale, the territory was bounded "east by Chambers, south by Noblet, west by the Amite River, north by Allen, and known as the Denham Springs tract." Minton, the first mayor of Denham Springs and founder of the Denham Springs News, thus received title to much of what is now the downtown section of Denham Springs.
By this time, the large Noblet holdings were also being subdivided and sold to newcomers, and the village that became Denham Springs began to grow. Another reason given for the evolution of the improve is the fact that a fine school, the Denham Springs Collegiate Institute, was established by a group or inhabitants in 1895.
Two reasons were given for the evolution of Hill's Springs and Denham Springs in the 1890s and early 20th century before to the culmination of a Baton Rouge to Hammond barns line.
A New Orleans printed announcement entitled Men and Matters described the so-called health-restoring properties of the spring water in a 1902 article on Denham Springs.
About 1908, the board of administrators of the Denham Springs Collegiate Institute deeded the property to the enhance school system, which was coming of age with the assembly of merged schools, and shortly after that, a two-story brick building was erected on the same site.
This was the beginning of Denham Springs High School, now the church's biggest senior high school. Lethar Frazar, standing in for the Kingfish's brother Earl, proclaimed Denham Springs to be a town/city on Sept.
Several factors influenced the expansion of Denham Springs after 1900, prominently the assembly of the barns line, the expansion of Baton Rouge as an industrialized center, and the corresponding enhancement of roads which made Denham Springs a desirable place for Baton Rouge workers to live.
The barns prompted the gradual boss of businesses toward the present Range Avenue area, and later made Denham Springs the shipping core of a large truck crop region.
Denham Springs almost missed being encompassed on the route, however, as the Baton Rouge, Hammond and Eastern Railroad Co., which was later purchased by the IC, at one time considered bypassing the village, perhaps to force some concessions on the small-town residents' part. The assembly of good roads and the advent of the automobile, combined with the expansion of the petrochemical trade in Baton Rouge, over a reconstructionof years led to Denham Springs becoming the so-called "bedroom of Baton Rouge".
Denham Springs became the banking and commercial center of Livingston Parish. The Denham Springs City Hall was listed in the National Register of Historic Places listings in Louisiana on April 16, 1993.
Denham Springs is also positioned on the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, a line which played a large part in the city's early development.
The Amite River, the chief body of water in Denham Springs, was one of the most publicized rivers that flooded.
Downtown Denham Springs has transformed itself from hardware stores, drug stores, doctors' offices, and a single movie theater, into a compilation of unique antique shops, and boutiques, including the locally prominent restaurant TOLA Cafe.
The historic downtown precinct is now recognized as a cultural arts precinct and is known as the Denham Springs Antique Village.
Denham Springs is part of the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Denham Springs is inside the Livingston Parish Public School System.
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