Louisiana Southern Railway
The Louisiana Southern Railway Company was a railroad in southern Louisiana, chartered in 1897 as successor to several short lines which had operated along the Mississippi River, including Mississippi, Terre aux Boeuf, and Lake; New Orleans and Gulf; and New Orleans and Southern, that eventually became part of the Southern Railway system.
The Railway was originally owned jointly by Franklin Emery Prewett and his half-brother, Granville Prewett. both of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Frank was the son of Vernal Franklin Prewett, of West Virginia, then Tennessee, and his first wife, Susan C. Ross. Granville was the son of Vernal Franklin Prewett and, apparently, his second spouse, Emma Lucy Ross. In 1907, the elder Prewett then married Ardelia Bowers, later Gooch.
The LS Railway served the truck farms, or large-scale market gardens, of the Mississippi Delta throughout the Great Depression.
In 1952, Southern bought the 15-mile line, running along the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Braithwaite.
