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Welcome’s post office opened in 1872, and 14% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Welcome began

When was Welcome founded?

1872

The Welcome post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 672154 years
Founding year: the first Welcome post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Welcome’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 Welcome are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Welcome’s history is told.

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The story so far

Welcome, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Welcome yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Welcome is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in St. James Parish, Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, Welcome had a population of 672. The community is located along Louisiana Highway 18 on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

Its first post office opened in 1872. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 800 to 672 (-16%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Welcome, 1872 to 1972

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1872Post officeThe Welcome post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1939Born herePercy A. Pierre is born here
  5. 1972Post officeThe Welcome post office closes
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No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Welcome had its own post office from 1872 to 1972.

Welcome
1872–1972
18701950today
Gone or out of use
New Hope PlantationlocaleSaint Alice Plantationlocale
1cemetery inside Welcome
Mount Calvary

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

St. James1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townUnion1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Welcome’s history

What year was Welcome founded?

The Welcome post office opened in 1872, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.