The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusWilson is a village in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 348 in 2020. It is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 595 to 348 (-42%). Half of its homes were built before 1989.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Wilson 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 Wilson’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wilson’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Wilson, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Wilson is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Wilson has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Hickory Hill Plantation House in Wilson, 2.7 miles away.
Wilson 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.