May This Plaque Forever Honor
Judge Émile Edouard (Edward) Simon 1824~1914 A Native of St. Martinville, Simon studied law at Harvard under the Honorable Joseph Story and Simon Greenleaf, earning his degree in 1846. As...
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- st martinville
- longfellow
- acadian
- teche
Oak and Pine Alley
OAK AND PINE ALLEY Charles Durand, Pre-Civil War sugar planter, credited with planting this alley. In legend a family wedding party rode down the alley canopied by giant spider...
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- planter
- sugar
- fontenette
- spanish
- durand
- spider webs
- gold
- silver
Centerville, Louisiana
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- electrocution
- van buren
May Yours Tread Pleasantly
THE FRENCH MARKETREBUILT 1936 - 1938 ANCIENT FRENCH MARKET DATES ITS LEGAL BIRTH FROM SEPTEMBER 10, 1784, WHEN THE "AUTHORITIES OF JUSTICE AND ADMINISTRATION" DECIDED THAT ALL RETAILERS IN...
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- new orleans
- french market
New Orleans
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- london
- new orleans
- france
- mississippi
- bienville
- iberville
Washington Artillery Park
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- new orleans
- washington
- artillary
- battery
Servant of God
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Girod House
GIROD HOUSE ERECTED IN 1814BYNICHOLAS GIROD THE TWO STORY WING FACING ST. LOUIS STREET WAS BUILT BY HIS BROTHER, CLAUD FRANCOIS GIROD, ABOUT 1797. NICHOLAS GIROD WAS THE MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS...
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- bonaparte
- exile
This Buddha Was Biult for the Shonfa Temple
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Crowley
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- lousiana
- victorian
- rice
St. Charles Borromeo Church
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- menard
- beauvais
- 1989
Battle of Lafourche Crossing
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- civil war
- connecticut
- opelousas
- pyron
- stickney
- railroad
Louisiana Memorial United Methodist Church
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- london
- opelousas
- church
- methodist
- bowman
- whatcoat
- ashbury
- appelousas
Confederate Mass Grave
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- london
- bourbeux
- roberts
- texas
- confderate
- mass grave
- grave
- civil war
Opelousas Colored School
Site of first public school for People of Color in Opelousas. Also known as St. Landry Parish Training school. School constructed on property donated by the City of Opelousas in 1918. Sponsored...
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- opelousas
- colored school
St. Landry Catholic Church
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- landry
- catholic
- parish
- immaclate
- opelousas
- arpents
- brick
- rossi
- engberink
Emmanuel Baptist Church
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- louisiana
- lafayette
- 1955
- baptist
- church
Dr. Lord Beaconsfield Landry
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Lake Pontchartrain
LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN Traveled on by Iberville, 1699 and named for the French Minister of Marine. Indians called it Okwa-ta, wide water. First port of embarka-tion was at the site where Bayou...
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- french
- 1699
- new orleans
- lousisiana
Grand Coteau
GRAND COTEAU Early and important center of Catholic education. Noted for its Creole architecture. Town developed around Academy of Sacred Heart, founded in 1921, and St. Charles Jesuit College,...
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- catholic
- creole
- jesuit