Springfield, Louisiana Town of Springfield Old Livingston Parish Courthouse in Springfield Location of Springfield in Louisiana Springfield is a town in Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 1.4 square miles (3.6 km ), all of it land.
Springfield began in the 18th century at one of the northernmost points considered to be navigable on the Natalbany River.
Between Springfield and Lake Maurepas, Ponchatoula Creek joins the Natalbany and increases its flow.
Via the Natalbany, Lake Maurepas, Lake Pontchartrain, and Bayou Saint John, Springfield had access to New Orleans by water.
Similarly, at the time (prior to the damming of the channel by levees) along the Amite River and Mississippi River, Bayou Manchac provided shallow-water access between Springfield and Baton Rouge.
By 1810 Springfield was one of the areas of interest in the rebellion against Spain, which produced the short-lived Republic of West Florida.
Helena Parish, with Livingston Parish created in 1832 from the southern portion of St.
Springfield served as the Livingston church seat from 1835 to 1872.
The town was incorporated in 1838. A postal service was listed in Springfield, Livingston County (Parish), on October 1, 1846, with Jacob P.
In the early part of the 19th century, Peter av Hammerdal (Peter Hammond), eponym of Hammond, Louisiana, came to do company of transporting lumber and other products for ocean-going ships in New Orleans, via the rivers and lakes south of Springfield.
The Springfield town/city fathers, fearing a lawless element, declined to allow a stockyards track to be laid from New Orleans through Springfield and then north.
(This decision gave birth to Ponchatoula, Hammond, Amite, and other towns.) The 1854 culmination of the New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern Railroad (now the Canadian National Railway) which went through Hammond, Ponchatoula, and Manchac bypassed Springfield and deprived it of a logistical part .
When Tangipahoa Parish was formed partly from Livingston Parish in 1868, Springfield was no longer a central locale in Livingston Parish.
It sat along the new boundary between Livingston and Tangipahoa Parishes.
Today's seat of government for Livingston Parish is the town/city of Livingston.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 23.5% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 28.4% from 45 to 64, and 15.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $28,125, and the median income for a family was $48,750.
Springfield is inside the Livingston Parish Public Schools system.
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