Historical Marker
Centerville, Louisiana
Livingston, Livingston County · Louisiana
Erected 1982
Centerville's post office was Springville, and for sixty years the crossroads was the parish seat. Its other distinction was grim. In September 1941 Louisiana carried out its first execution by electrocution in Livingston Parish, using a traveling electric chair that brought its own generator because parts of the parish had no electric service. The seat moved to the town of Livingston the same year. Before Centerville the courthouse sat at Van Buren, Springfield and Port Vincent.
Where it stands
30.43477, -90.68515 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Tickfaw State Park — 4.9 miA floodplain park on the Tickfaw River, with cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland hardwoods and about 4.75 miles of trails and boardwalks, plus a nature center with an 800-gallon river aquarium.
- LSU Rural Life Museum — 26 miFour slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.
More markers nearby
- Livingston Parish — 5.1 mi
- Carter Plantation — 6.7 mi
- Hungarian Settlement — 7.0 mi
- Albany, Louisiana — 7.6 mi