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History · Mount Lebanon

Mount Lebanon’s post office opened in 1950, and 7 of its places are on the National Register

Most of Mount Lebanon was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1968. Below: maps from 1955 on and the census since 1970.

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How Mount Lebanon began

When was Mount Lebanon founded?

1950

The Mount Lebanon post office opened in 1950, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 102 in 19702020 census: 6676 years
Founding year: the first Mount Lebanon post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Mount Lebanon’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Mount Lebanon are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Landmarks on the Register7 places on the National Register.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mount Lebanon’s history is told.

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On the National Register

7 historic places in Mount Lebanon

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
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first listed
1980
Colbert House
Colbert HouseDown HouseJones HouseMount Lebanon Baptist ChurchStage Coach InnThurmond HouseWayside Inn
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Greek Revival7
All 7 listings
Colbert HouseBuilding · listed 1980Down HouseBuilding · listed 1980Jones HouseBuilding · listed 1980Mount Lebanon Baptist ChurchBuilding · listed 1980Stage Coach InnBuilding · listed 1980Thurmond HouseBuilding · listed 1980Wayside InnBuilding · listed 1980

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

The story

How Mount Lebanon came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Mount Lebanon.

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Mount Lebanon was probably the first permanent settlement in what is now Bienville Parish. Its pioneers were Baptists from South Carolina who quickly established a church and school. The school became Mount Lebanon University in 1853, but closed during the Civil War to serve as a high school and a Confederate hospital. After the war the school reopened. After years of struggling, it was consolidated in 1906 through the Louisiana Baptist Convention into Louisiana College in Pineville in Rapides Parish in central Louisiana.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Mount Lebanon, 1950 to 1955

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1950Post officeThe Mount Lebanon post office opens
  3. 1955Post officeThe Mount Lebanon post office closes
  4. 1955On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Mount Lebanon, decade by decade

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On the map

Mount Lebanon on the map, 1955 to 1986

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Mount Lebanon. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Mount Lebanon on the 1955 USGS mapMount Lebanon on the 1986 USGS map1955Shreveport sheet · 1:250,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Mount Lebanon.

People over time

Mount Lebanon, census by census

0100198020002020Peak: 105

Between 66 and 105 people in every census since 1970.

6 censuses, 1970–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Mount Lebanon’s Wikipedia page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Mount Lebanon had its own post office from 1950 to 1955.

Mount Lebanon
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19501990today
1cemetery inside Mount Lebanon
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Mount Lebanon’s history

What year was Mount Lebanon founded?

The Mount Lebanon post office opened in 1950, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Mount Lebanon?

7 listings: 7 buildings, among them the Colbert House (listed 1980, the first).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (1), the National Register of Historic Places (7), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.