New Llano is a town in Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,415 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Fort Polk South Micropolitan Statistical Area.Originally Stables, Louisiana, the town was renamed when 200 members of the Socialist commune Llano del Rio Cooperative Colony in California relocated to this site in 1917, giving the town its present name. It continued to function as a socialist commune with citizens pooling and sharing resources and wealth until 1937.GeographyNew Llano is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.0 square mile, all land.HistoryThe New Llano Cooperative Colony was founded in 1917 when Job Harriman relocated, with other commune members of the Llano del Rio colony, to 20,000 acres of cut-over land two miles south of Leesville. The location chosen was the Gulf Lumber Company sawmill town named Stables. The mill had burned in 1913 and again in 1916. After the sawmill burned the second time it was not rebuilt because the stumpage reserves were depleted. The land, was sold on contract to the Cooperative Colony. The colony was self-sufficient with a national socialist newspaper, a broom factory, sawmill, ice plant, and sheet metal factory,. There was also a school, infirmary, hospital, and recreational facilities. The colony closed in 1937
