Pearl River, Louisiana Pearl River, Louisiana Pearl River, Louisiana Municipal Pearl River Municipal Complex Location of Pearl River in Louisiana Pearl River is a town in St.
Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Pearl River is positioned at 30 22 16 N 89 45 4 W (30.371096, -89.751139). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 3.6 square miles (9.3 km2), of which 3.5 square miles (9.0 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km2), or 2.27%, is water. The improve that is today Pearl River was originally known as Halloo, a moniker it assumedly garnered from loggers yelling to one another as they labored along the close-by Pearl River.
Early Halloo was a small barns town, positioned at the junction of the Northeastern and Poitevent and Favre's East Louisiana Railroads.
The community's name was first changed from Halloo (1859) to Pearl (1878), later to Pearlville (1881), and eventually Pearl River, in 1888, after the train station assembled in the town.
On July 13, 1898, the 200 people of Pearl River voted to petition the state of Louisiana for incorporation as the "Village of Pearl River", a request which was granted nearly a decade later, on May 24, 1906, by governor Newton Crain Blanchard, with G.W.
The village slowly modernized over the course of the next half century, acquiring the territory for a courthouse in 1935 and a town hall ten years later.
Pearl River Junior High was opened in 1963, but the building was made into a police training academy in 2005.
In 1964, the village insignia was replaced, as the newly minted "town" laid claim to 1,500 residents, a designation that lives on today, in the town of about 2,500.
In 1968 Pearl River High School was established on Taylor Drive with Mr.
James "Jim" Lavigne served as Mayor of Pearl River from 1992 to 2014.
Lavigne served as Mayor longer than anyone in Pearl River before.
Raynor, who was propel Pearl River Chief of Police in November 1982, held the position for 32 consecutive years.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 25.8% under the age of 18, 8.6% from 18 to 24, 28.7% from 25 to 44, 25.2% from 45 to 64, and 11.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $31,296, and the median income for a family was $40,647.
Tammany Parish Public Schools schools.
6-8: Creekside Junior High School (unincorporated St.
Creekside was opened in 2003 when the town decided to turn Pearl River Junior High into a police training academy.
9-12: Pearl River High School (Pearl River) Pearl River High School was first opened in 1968 and Mr.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Pearl River town, Louisiana".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Pearl River town, Louisiana".
Tammany Parish Public Schools.
Tammany Parish Public Schools.
Pearl River High School Boundary.
Tammany Parish Public Schools.
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