Editing Slaughter, Louisiana (section)

==History==
The area was originally called Belzara, which was named after the post office in the area.  The community was later called Burnsville, in honor of the land surveyor who cut the railroad right-of-way through the area.  The town's name is from an Illinois Central Railroad Depot for the farm of the Slaughter family. The town was incorporated as "Slaughter" in 1889.<ref>https://townofslaughter.org/</ref> The [[Gloster Southern Railroad]] served the town from 1987 to 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=Gloster Southern Railroad Company LLC--Discontinuance of Service Exemption--in Amite and Wilkinson Counties, MS and East Feliciana Parish, LA|url=http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-29638.htm|publisher=[[Surface Transportation Board]]|accessdate=February 5, 2024}}</ref> figures in the title of [[Michael Ondaatje]]'s novel about jazz player [[Buddy Bolden]] entitled ''[[Coming Through Slaughter]]''. Slaughter was designated a town in 2002.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.census.gov/popest/geographic/boundary_changes/index.html | title = Boundary Changes | work = Geographic Change Notes: Louisiana | publisher = Population Division, United States Census Bureau | date = May 19, 2006 | access-date = October 24, 2008 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060206063031/http://www.census.gov/popest/geographic/boundary_changes/index.html | archive-date = February 6, 2006 }}</ref>