Editing Athens, Louisiana (section)

==History==
The village was named after the ancient city of [[Athens]], capital of [[Greece]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Leeper|first=Clare D'Artois|title=Louisiana Place Names: Popular, Unusual, and Forgotten Stories of Towns, Cities, Plantations, Bayous, and Even Some Cemeteries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZHeeUa0xNxcC&pg=PA23|date=October 19, 2012|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=978-0-8071-4740-5|page=23}}</ref>  Athens became the parish seat of [[Claiborne Parish, Louisiana|Claiborne Parish]] in 1846, but in 1848, fire destroyed the courthouse and all the records in it.  Soon thereafter, the Claiborne Parish [[Police Jury]] decided to move the parish seat to its present location in [[Homer, Louisiana|Homer]].<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Harris|editor1-first=D. W.|editor2-last=Hulse|editor2-first=B. M.|title=The History of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, From Its Incorporation in 1828 to the Close of the Year 1885|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofclaibor00harr|date=1886|publisher=W. B. Stansbury & Co.|location=New Orleans|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofclaibor00harr/page/19 19]–20, 103}}</ref>