The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusMorse is a village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Morse had a population of 599. It is part of the Crowley Micropolitan Statistical Area. Laid out in 1898 on land owned by J. M. Crabtree, Morse was settled by farmers from Illinois and Iowa and incorporated as a village in 1906. The Southern Pacific Railroad had built a line here in 1895 connecting Midland and Gueydan and named it Morse Station after the railroad's New Orleans–based passenger agent, Col. Samuel Finley Breese Morse, a cousin of the inventor of the telegraph. Morse had promoted immigration efforts targeting the area.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 812 to 599 (-26%). Half of its homes were built before 1990.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Morse yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Morse’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Morse’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Morse, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Morse is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Morse has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Istre Cemetery Grave Houses in Morse, 4 miles away.
Morse 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 (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.