Editing Haynesville, Louisiana (section)

==History==
[[File:Louisiana - Boyce through Kinder - NARA - 23940399 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Haynesville in 1935]]
The town of Haynesville is the namesake of the [[Haynesville Shale]], an upper [[Jurassic]] formation that is difficult to define<ref>Chapman, R.T., (1951), Jurassic Development in the Haynesville Field, Claiborne Parish, Louisiana; Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions. Vol. 1, p. 40., this abstract is hosted in the archives section of the website of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists ([https://www.aapg.org/ AAPG])</ref> on a technical basis<ref>Horn, Marty, (2009), Toward a Better Definition of Haynesville Formation, Northern Louisiana Subsurface, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Denver, Colorado.</ref> but nevertheless covers a broad region of western Louisiana and east Texas and contains a large natural gas resource.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.beg.utexas.edu/research/programs/starr/unconventional-resources/haynesville|title = Haynesville Shale-gas Study &#124; Bureau of Economic Geology}}</ref>  On March 24, 2008, Chesapeake Energy announced a new natural gas discovery in the Haynesville Shale.<ref>{{Cite press release|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20080324005847/en/Chesapeake-Announces-Haynesville-Shale-Discovery-New-Unconventional|title = News}}</ref>  This announcement began a new chapter in the development of the Hayneville Shale and hastened the activities of several other companies in the play.<ref>http://www.inexs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Haynesville-Study.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>

The town's churches include [[Baptist]], [[United Methodist]], [[Presbyterian]], [[Missionary Baptist]], [[Pentecostal]], and [[The churches of Christ (non-institutional)|Church of Christ]]. This part of the state was settled by Protestants from other parts of the South, more than by ethnic French, Louisiana Creole, Italian and Irish Catholics more typically found in the New Orleans area.

Material on the history of Haynesville can be found at the [[Herbert S. Ford Memorial Museum]] located across from the Claiborne Parish Courthouse in [[Homer, Louisiana|Homer]].