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DRY PRONG, LOUISIANA

Dry Prong is a village located in Grant Parish, Louisiana. It was incorporated as a village in 1945 and Clarence M. Fuller served as the first mayor of the village.

History tells us that Dry Prong had its beginning when a family moved into the region around 1870. This family purportedly built a sawmill and powered it by placing the wahterwheel in, what they thought was, a good creek. But alas, to their great disappointment a few months later, they discovered that the creek was a "dry prong". That meant that every summer the creek went dry and the sawmill was inoperable. The family rebuilt the sawmill over a nearby creek that flowed all year, yet somehow "dry prong" stuck and the village was named. The creek is located outside the city limits on Highway 123.