Valsin House (CA. 1876)

Here Valsin Broussard, founder of what is now the City

of Broussard, established his family home ca. 1876.

This two-story, gallery-fronted, Anglo-American

and French-style home housed the Broussard family

for generations. It served its industrious and

thrifty community as one of the town's first

polling places for their parish and state elections.

Broussardville's prosperity was bound to this house

and the estate of Valsin Broussard, who donated

his land, among other things, for the construction

of this "chemin public," a road from Broussardville

to St. Martinville and to Royville (Youngsville),

connecting Lafayette Parish to Iberia Parish.