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Roland Weston said Logtown was originally known as "Cubanaga Latinier" or "Palmetto Camp," so called because of the growth of palmettos on the river bank. He said there are still plenty of pottery and arrow heads, bones, a shell bank and other evidences of Indian life to be found there.
He said after the War of 1812 the U. S. Government was building forts at Lake Borgne and Lake Pontchartrain for the protection of further attacks on New Orleans. While building Fort Pike the soldiers came to Logtown for timber. There were several log houses on the banks of the Pearl River and they gave the hamlet the name of Logtown.
The first claim to land was taken out by a Frenchman, one Joseph Challon in 1788,* the records of which are still extent, but his clain was not granted until l805. Challon conveyed his rights to Wingate about 1828. From these facts we can see that Logtown tias probably been inhabited well over 100 years.
Roland Weston is the oldest son of the late John Weston and Amelia Baxter and grandson of Henry Weston. He was born in Logtown in 1899. He was educated in the University of Washington and finished in Forestry.