The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The village was named after the ancient city of Athens, capital of Greece. Athens became the parish seat of Claiborne Parish in 1846, but in 1848, fire destroyed the courthouse and all the records in it. Soon thereafter, the Claiborne Parish Police Jury decided to move the parish seat to its present location in Homer.
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Start Athens’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Athens’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Athens, decade by decade
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LOCCompanion barns in the piney woods of north Louisiana's Cla…2020
LOCDirt road and rural landscape in north Louisiana's Claiborn…2020
CommonsSalem Cemetery in Athens, LA IMG 36362010
CommonsHay field north of Athens, LA IMG 36382010
CommonsAthens, LA, water tower IMG 36312010
CommonsLAMap-doton-Athens2004Nothing in Athens is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Athens has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Tulip Methodist Church in Athens, 3.1 miles away.
Athens and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4) and the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.