Iota’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Iota. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The history of Iota is identified with Pointe-aux-Loups (French for Wolf Point), one of the oldest place names in southwest Louisiana, and the location of mineral springs that attracted many visitors beginning about 1858. The older settlement was located on Bayou des Cannes about two miles west of the present Town of Iota. A post office named Cartville, for the first postmaster Samuel Cart, was established in the vicinity of Pointe-aux-Loups in 1884. Ten years later, a railroad branch line from Midland to Eunice bypassed Cartville by a mile or so to the east. The railroad company built a depot at a point on the line nearest to the Cartville and Pointe-aux-Loups settlements, naming it Iota. The Cartville post office was changed to Iota in 1900.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Iota’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Iota’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewOld iota mardi gras, 1930s: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Iota
See all 6 →Iota, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Iota is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Iota has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Ellis Hoffpauir House in Estherwood, 10.1 miles away.
Iota and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
the same place, years apart
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1930s · Commons2020 · Commons
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.