 Although officially recognized settlers had lived in the Taylor Bayou area since the 1830s, a post office was not established at the community known as Lower Taylor's Bayou until 1888.In that year new postmaster J. E. Broussard named the post office LaBelle in honor of his fiancée, Mary Bell Bordages.The area's first school was probably started by Leo (Peg Leg) Craigen, near what later became the Port Arthur Country Club.