Why is Berg Jones Elementary on Burg Jones Lane?

I wrote a tale not too long ago and realized with horror that I might put Berg Jones Elementary all the way by way of it.

It really is on Burg Jones Lane, and I imagined I might had a brain blip and swapped it all prior to it was revealed. Crisis averted.

Only I realized the upcoming working day that it is, in point, Berg Jones Elementary.

The correction was the mistake.

I’ve been the training reporter for five several years. It states “Berg” on the facet of the school! Mortifying.

The campus is, on the other hand, at 3000 Burg Jones Lane, Monroe.

That begs the problem: Why the variance?

The respond to is: No one seriously is aware of, but Berg Jones will not in fact exist in this metropolis outside the house the faculty title.

A search in The News-Star archives displays that a person named Burg Jones was buying home in the parish as early as 1897.

In 1915 there were references to plenty in Berg Jones. Via the subsequent century, many advertisements referred to it with an E.

In 1931, there was a reference to a Black guy living on Burg Jones lane who reported his chickens had been stolen and in 1932 there was a reference to Burg Jones Estate remaining surveyed.

In 1962, the Monroe City School Board gave final acceptance for a university on Burg Jones to provide the city’s Black populace.