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Transylvania, Louisiana

FieldValue
nameTransylvania
settlement_typeUnincorporated community
image_skylineTransylvaniaLAWatertower.jpg
image_captionTransylvania: Post office, water tower, and sign for general store.
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_nameUnited States
subdivision_type1State
subdivision_name1Louisiana
subdivision_type2Parish
subdivision_name2East Carroll
pushpin_mapLouisiana
pushpin_map_captionLocation of Transylvania in Louisiana
coordinates
elevation_ft98
population_density_km2auto
timezone1CST
utc_offset1-6
timezone1_DSTCDT
utc_offset1_DST-5
postal_code_typeZIP codes
postal_code71286

Transylvania is an unincorporated community in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population of Transylvania was 743.

Geography

Transylvania is located approximately 10 mi south of Lake Providence on U.S. Highway 65, at the junction with LA 581, near the Mississippi River.

History

Transylvania was named in the early 19th century by Transylvania University alumnus Dr. W. L. Richards. He bought large acreage in the northern Louisiana area and named the town after his beloved school, still in existence today in Lexington, Kentucky.

As the name of Transylvania is associated by many people in the United States with the Hollywood Dracula movies, the general store in the town sells Dracula- and bat-related merchandise to people passing through on Highway 65.

On the afternoon of Sunday, February 21, 1971, a large and long-tracked F5 tornado impacted Transylvania.

Education

All of the community is in the East Carroll Parish School Board.

By 2005 Transylvania Elementary School had stopped operations and was abandoned.

References

References

  1. {{gnis. 543732
  2. Geography Division. (December 18, 2020). "2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: East Carroll Parish, LA". [[U.S. Census Bureau]].
  3. "The abandoned Transylvania Elementary School, abandoned in 2005 in the little East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, town of Transylvania". [[Library of Congress]].
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