| La Vergne population hits 26,472 |
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Posted: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:37 am
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The 2008 special census, conducted by the city of La Vergne, had been officially certified by the state of Tennessee at 26,472, according to the State Department of Economic and Community Development.
The figure shows an additional 7,778 people since 2000.
The special census conducted by the city of La Vergne, was the third the city conducted in the 2000s.
The Federal census will tale place in 2010 the next city related census will take place in 2013. The city is allows three special censuses per decade.
In 2000, the U.S. Census recorded La Vergne's population at 18,687.
La Vergne’s history dates back to 1822 and the arrival of a French merchant named, Francis Leonard Gregorie de Roulhac de La Vergne.
He anglicized his name into Francis Roulhac, but the name “La Vergne” stuck on the little community. The name wasn’t officially adopted until after Roulhac’s death in 1852.
However, it was the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad that really put the little community on the map in 1852. It developed into a busy freight stop and was first incorporated in 1860.
The Civil War and Reconstruction brought hard times to La Vergne, which steadily lost population until 1925, when the town reincorporated with Allen Mason serving as mayor.
Again, the town reached a standstill with growth gravitating toward Smyrna.
Then came Interchange City, a massive industrial park off of Interstate 24 and between the Rutherford and Davidson County line.
Population began to boom along with that in the Antioch area of Davidson County.
In 1972, the town was reincorporated for the third time and Vester Waldron was elected mayor and A.C. Puckett and C.A. Chaney commissioners.
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