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St. Martinville, Louisiana (11)
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St. Martinville is a city in as well as the parish seat of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies over Bayou Teche, sixteen miles south of Breaux Bridge, 8een miles southeast of Lafayette, as well as 9 miles north of New Iberia. The population was 6,989 at the 2000 census. It is region of the Lafayette Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In the 16th century the area between the Atchafalaya River, in Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico as well as Trinity River, in Texas, was occupied by numerous Indians tribes or Subdivisions of the Atakapa. The Indian Territory was not closed to outsiders as well as numerous traders roamed by it over business. However, it overly began to be settled by Europeans afterwards Louisiana was founded in 1699. The territory between Atchafalaya River as well as Bayou Nezpique, where Eastern Atakapa lived, was called Attakapas Territory. The French colonial government gave land away to soldiers as well as settlers.
Attakapas Post was founded over the banks of the Bayou Teche as well as settlers started to arrive. Some came separately from France, such that as the Frenchman Masse, who came about 1754. Masse came to Louisiana from Grenoble. He was orphaned as a youth when his father was massacred at Natchez. Gabriel Fuselier de la Claire as well as several others from Mobile arrived in late 1763/early 1764. Fuselier bought land between Vermilion River as well as Bayou Teche from the Eastern Attakapas Chief Kinemo. It was briefly afterwards which a rival Indian Tribe, the Appalousa (Opelousas) coming from the area by Atchafalaya River as well as Sabine River, exterminated the Attakapas (Eastern Atakapa).
Then several other European settlers came in groups, such that as the first Acadians from Nova Scotia, who were sent there in 1765 by Jean Jacques Blaise d’Abbadie the French Official who was administering Louisiana for the Spanish. The group was led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil. In 1768-1769 fifteen families arrived from Pointe Coupee. Their members came from Santo Domingo (French Saint Domingue, today Haïti) or from Paris via Fort de Chartres, Illinois. Between the arrivals of the two groups, the French captain Etienne de Vaugine came in 1764 as well as acquired a huge domain east of Bayou Teche.
On April 25, 1766, afterwards the arrival of the first Acadians, the census presented a population of 409 inhabitants for the Attakapas region. In 1767 the Attakapas Post singularly had 150 inhabitants before the arrival of the 15 families from Pointe Coupee.
Napoleon sold Louisiana in 1803 to the United States by the Louisiana Purchase. The organizing of the Attakapas Territory need place between 1807 as well as 1868, culminating in the creation of the St. Martin Parish. Attakapas Post was named St. Martinville.
St. Martinville is widely considered to be the birthplace of the Cajun culture as well as traditions, as well as it is in the heart of Cajun Country. There has been a true multicultural community in St. Martinville, goes along with Cajuns, Creoles (French coming via the French West Islands – Guadeloupe, Martinique as well as Santo Domingo), French, Spaniards, African as well as African Americans.
Once New Orleans was founded as well as began to have epidemics, several New Orleanians escaped the city as well as came to St Martinville. Its nickname, Petit Paris ("Little Paris"), dates from the era when St. Martinville was acknowledgen as a cultural mecca goes along with nice hotels as well as a French Theater which featured the best operas as well as witty get fromdies.
The third oldest town in Louisiana, St. Martinville has a lot of buildings as well as houses goes along with beautiful architecture, such that as the historic St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church as well as La Maison Duchamp over Main Street. The church was dedicated to Martin of Tours in France, where a St Martin de Tours church can be found. There is asides overe in Layrac, France, the birthplace of Pierre Nezat who settled in 1768 in St Martinville.
St. Martinville is the site of the Evangeline Oak created well-known in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem. It is asides the location of an African American Museum, as well as is included as a destination over the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
St. Martinville Senior High School asides has a amazing sports tradition. The Tigers have won 2 state titles in football as well as have had a consistently nice team because the late 70′s until recent years. They have asides won state championships in basketball as well as volleyball. The latest of the 5 championships came in the 2001-02 basketball season. The team coined the name "The Greatest Show over Earth" by the locals. Early Doucet as well as Darrel Mitchell (both LSU standouts) were both over the team. Doucet focused over football the concording year. Mitchell was Mr. Louisiana which year asides.
St. Martin de Tours Church is the oldest church parish in southwest Louisiana. It is acknowledgen as the Mother Church of the Acadians because it was founded in 1765 over the arrival of Acadians in this area. The current building has served as a center for religious activities in this predominantly Catholic community for from overe hundred fifty years.
At the side of the St Martin de Tours Church is a monument dedicated to the Militiamen of St Martinville (36 of the militiamen were French Creoles, three were Acadians, as well as three colonial Americans, overe’s citizenship was not acknowledgen) who need region goes along with General Bernardo de Galvez in the "Capture of Baton Rouge in 1779” Battle of Baton Rouge. The monument was erected by the Louisiana Daughters of the American Revolution.
La Maison Duchamp over Main Street in St. Martinville, Louisiana was built by Eugène as well as Amélie Duchamp in 1876 as their town house. This St. Martinville landmark house has been listed over the National Register of Historic Places; future generations is about to be able to saw its creative architecture.
Duchamp Opera House, which dates to the mid-1800s, hosted a lot of theatrical companies in its lifetime as well as has recently been completely restored. It when moreover hosts theatrical companies over the second floor.
The Evangeline Oak, created well-known in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, "Evangeline," stands over the bank of the Bayou Teche. Longfellow Evangeline State Park is located north of the historic district.
The African American Museum, located in the historic district, utilizes the latest technology to provide insights into the culture as well as life of the Free People of Color in the community as well as their contributions to the Attakapas region from the 1750s over. They were integral to building as well as service trades. Many descended from Africans from the Senegambian region of West Africa as well as from French as well as Spanish colonists.
The freshly renovated Old Teche Theater, when moreover offers entertainment to the town. The 1930′s Art Deco movie house is currently converted into a television & film studio as well as a performing arts venue as well as recording studio.
Notre Dame Church, founded in 1939 to house African-American catholics of the region.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Martinville,_Louisiana
St. Martinville, Louisiana (6)
Image by Ken Lund
St. Martinville is a city in as well as the parish seat of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies over Bayou Teche, sixteen miles south of Breaux Bridge, 8een miles southeast of Lafayette, as well as 9 miles north of New Iberia. The population was 6,989 at the 2000 census. It is region of the Lafayette Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In the 16th century the area between the Atchafalaya River, in Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico as well as Trinity River, in Texas, was occupied by numerous Indians tribes or Subdivisions of the Atakapa. The Indian Territory was not closed to outsiders as well as numerous traders roamed by it over business. However, it overly began to be settled by Europeans afterwards Louisiana was founded in 1699. The territory between Atchafalaya River as well as Bayou Nezpique, where Eastern Atakapa lived, was called Attakapas Territory. The French colonial government gave land away to soldiers as well as settlers.
Attakapas Post was founded over the banks of the Bayou Teche as well as settlers started to arrive. Some came separately from France, such that as the Frenchman Masse, who came about 1754. Masse came to Louisiana from Grenoble. He was orphaned as a youth when his father was massacred at Natchez. Gabriel Fuselier de la Claire as well as several others from Mobile arrived in late 1763/early 1764. Fuselier bought land between Vermilion River as well as Bayou Teche from the Eastern Attakapas Chief Kinemo. It was briefly afterwards which a rival Indian Tribe, the Appalousa (Opelousas) coming from the area by Atchafalaya River as well as Sabine River, exterminated the Attakapas (Eastern Atakapa).
Then several other European settlers came in groups, such that as the first Acadians from Nova Scotia, who were sent there in 1765 by Jean Jacques Blaise d’Abbadie the French Official who was administering Louisiana for the Spanish. The group was led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil. In 1768-1769 fifteen families arrived from Pointe Coupee. Their members came from Santo Domingo (French Saint Domingue, today Haïti) or from Paris via Fort de Chartres, Illinois. Between the arrivals of the two groups, the French captain Etienne de Vaugine came in 1764 as well as acquired a huge domain east of Bayou Teche.
On April 25, 1766, afterwards the arrival of the first Acadians, the census presented a population of 409 inhabitants for the Attakapas region. In 1767 the Attakapas Post singularly had 150 inhabitants before the arrival of the 15 families from Pointe Coupee.
Napoleon sold Louisiana in 1803 to the United States by the Louisiana Purchase. The organizing of the Attakapas Territory need place between 1807 as well as 1868, culminating in the creation of the St. Martin Parish. Attakapas Post was named St. Martinville.
St. Martinville is widely considered to be the birthplace of the Cajun culture as well as traditions, as well as it is in the heart of Cajun Country. There has been a true multicultural community in St. Martinville, goes along with Cajuns, Creoles (French coming via the French West Islands – Guadeloupe, Martinique as well as Santo Domingo), French, Spaniards, African as well as African Americans.
Once New Orleans was founded as well as began to have epidemics, several New Orleanians escaped the city as well as came to St Martinville. Its nickname, Petit Paris ("Little Paris"), dates from the era when St. Martinville was acknowledgen as a cultural mecca goes along with nice hotels as well as a French Theater which featured the best operas as well as witty get fromdies.
The third oldest town in Louisiana, St. Martinville has a lot of buildings as well as houses goes along with beautiful architecture, such that as the historic St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church as well as La Maison Duchamp over Main Street. The church was dedicated to Martin of Tours in France, where a St Martin de Tours church can be found. There is asides overe in Layrac, France, the birthplace of Pierre Nezat who settled in 1768 in St Martinville.
St. Martinville is the site of the Evangeline Oak created well-known in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem. It is asides the location of an African American Museum, as well as is included as a destination over the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
St. Martinville Senior High School asides has a amazing sports tradition. The Tigers have won 2 state titles in football as well as have had a consistently nice team because the late 70′s until recent years. They have asides won state championships in basketball as well as volleyball. The latest of the 5 championships came in the 2001-02 basketball season. The team coined the name "The Greatest Show over Earth" by the locals. Early Doucet as well as Darrel Mitchell (both LSU standouts) were both over the team. Doucet focused over football the concording year. Mitchell was Mr. Louisiana which year asides.
St. Martin de Tours Church is the oldest church parish in southwest Louisiana. It is acknowledgen as the Mother Church of the Acadians because it was founded in 1765 over the arrival of Acadians in this area. The current building has served as a center for religious activities in this predominantly Catholic community for from overe hundred fifty years.
At the side of the St Martin de Tours Church is a monument dedicated to the Militiamen of St Martinville (36 of the militiamen were French Creoles, three were Acadians, as well as three colonial Americans, overe’s citizenship was not acknowledgen) who need region goes along with General Bernardo de Galvez in the "Capture of Baton Rouge in 1779” Battle of Baton Rouge. The monument was erected by the Louisiana Daughters of the American Revolution.
La Maison Duchamp over Main Street in St. Martinville, Louisiana was built by Eugène as well as Amélie Duchamp in 1876 as their town house. This St. Martinville landmark house has been listed over the National Register of Historic Places; future generations is about to be able to saw its creative architecture.
Duchamp Opera House, which dates to the mid-1800s, hosted a lot of theatrical companies in its lifetime as well as has recently been completely restored. It when moreover hosts theatrical companies over the second floor.
The Evangeline Oak, created well-known in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, "Evangeline," stands over the bank of the Bayou Teche. Longfellow Evangeline State Park is located north of the historic district.
The African American Museum, located in the historic district, utilizes the latest technology to provide insights into the culture as well as life of the Free People of Color in the community as well as their contributions to the Attakapas region from the 1750s over. They were integral to building as well as service trades. Many descended from Africans from the Senegambian region of West Africa as well as from French as well as Spanish colonists.
The freshly renovated Old Teche Theater, when moreover offers entertainment to the town. The 1930′s Art Deco movie house is currently converted into a television & film studio as well as a performing arts venue as well as recording studio.
Notre Dame Church, founded in 1939 to house African-American catholics of the region.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Martinville,_Louisiana
St. Martinville, Louisiana
Image by Ken Lund
St. Martinville is a city in as well as the parish seat of St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States. It lies over Bayou Teche, sixteen miles south of Breaux Bridge, 8een miles southeast of Lafayette, as well as 9 miles north of New Iberia. The population was 6,989 at the 2000 census. It is region of the Lafayette Metropolitan Statistical Area.
In the 16th century the area between the Atchafalaya River, in Louisiana, the Gulf of Mexico as well as Trinity River, in Texas, was occupied by numerous Indians tribes or Subdivisions of the Atakapa. The Indian Territory was not closed to outsiders as well as numerous traders roamed by it over business. However, it overly began to be settled by Europeans afterwards Louisiana was founded in 1699. The territory between Atchafalaya River as well as Bayou Nezpique, where Eastern Atakapa lived, was called Attakapas Territory. The French colonial government gave land away to soldiers as well as settlers.
Attakapas Post was founded over the banks of the Bayou Teche as well as settlers started to arrive. Some came separately from France, such that as the Frenchman Masse, who came about 1754. Masse came to Louisiana from Grenoble. He was orphaned as a youth when his father was massacred at Natchez. Gabriel Fuselier de la Claire as well as several others from Mobile arrived in late 1763/early 1764. Fuselier bought land between Vermilion River as well as Bayou Teche from the Eastern Attakapas Chief Kinemo. It was briefly afterwards which a rival Indian Tribe, the Appalousa (Opelousas) coming from the area by Atchafalaya River as well as Sabine River, exterminated the Attakapas (Eastern Atakapa).
Then several other European settlers came in groups, such that as the first Acadians from Nova Scotia, who were sent there in 1765 by Jean Jacques Blaise d’Abbadie the French Official who was administering Louisiana for the Spanish. The group was led by Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil. In 1768-1769 fifteen families arrived from Pointe Coupee. Their members came from Santo Domingo (French Saint Domingue, today Haïti) or from Paris via Fort de Chartres, Illinois. Between the arrivals of the two groups, the French captain Etienne de Vaugine came in 1764 as well as acquired a huge domain east of Bayou Teche.
On April 25, 1766, afterwards the arrival of the first Acadians, the census presented a population of 409 inhabitants for the Attakapas region. In 1767 the Attakapas Post singularly had 150 inhabitants before the arrival of the 15 families from Pointe Coupee.
Napoleon sold Louisiana in 1803 to the United States by the Louisiana Purchase. The organizing of the Attakapas Territory need place between 1807 as well as 1868, culminating in the creation of the St. Martin Parish. Attakapas Post was named St. Martinville.
St. Martinville is widely considered to be the birthplace of the Cajun culture as well as traditions, as well as it is in the heart of Cajun Country. There has been a true multicultural community in St. Martinville, goes along with Cajuns, Creoles (French coming via the French West Islands – Guadeloupe, Martinique as well as Santo Domingo), French, Spaniards, African as well as African Americans.
Once New Orleans was founded as well as began to have epidemics, several New Orleanians escaped the city as well as came to St Martinville. Its nickname, Petit Paris ("Little Paris"), dates from the era when St. Martinville was acknowledgen as a cultural mecca goes along with nice hotels as well as a French Theater which featured the best operas as well as witty get fromdies.
The third oldest town in Louisiana, St. Martinville has a lot of buildings as well as houses goes along with beautiful architecture, such that as the historic St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church as well as La Maison Duchamp over Main Street. The church was dedicated to Martin of Tours in France, where a St Martin de Tours church can be found. There is asides overe in Layrac, France, the birthplace of Pierre Nezat who settled in 1768 in St Martinville.
St. Martinville is the site of the Evangeline Oak created well-known in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem. It is asides the location of an African American Museum, as well as is included as a destination over the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail.
St. Martinville Senior High School asides has a amazing sports tradition. The Tigers have won 2 state titles in football as well as have had a consistently nice team because the late 70′s until recent years. They have asides won state championships in basketball as well as volleyball. The latest of the 5 championships came in the 2001-02 basketball season. The team coined the name "The Greatest Show over Earth" by the locals. Early Doucet as well as Darrel Mitchell (both LSU standouts) were both over the team. Doucet focused over football the concording year. Mitchell was Mr. Louisiana which year asides.
St. Martin de Tours Church is the oldest church parish in southwest Louisiana. It is acknowledgen as the Mother Church of the Acadians because it was founded in 1765 over the arrival of Acadians in this area. The current building has served as a center for religious activities in this predominantly Catholic community for from overe hundred fifty years.
At the side of the St Martin de Tours Church is a monument dedicated to the Militiamen of St Martinville (36 of the militiamen were French Creoles, three were Acadians, as well as three colonial Americans, overe’s citizenship was not acknowledgen) who need region goes along with General Bernardo de Galvez in the "Capture of Baton Rouge in 1779” Battle of Baton Rouge. The monument was erected by the Louisiana Daughters of the American Revolution.
La Maison Duchamp over Main Street in St. Martinville, Louisiana was built by Eugène as well as Amélie Duchamp in 1876 as their town house. This St. Martinville landmark house has been listed over the National Register of Historic Places; future generations is about to be able to saw its creative architecture.
Duchamp Opera House, which dates to the mid-1800s, hosted a lot of theatrical companies in its lifetime as well as has recently been completely restored. It when moreover hosts theatrical companies over the second floor.
The Evangeline Oak, created well-known in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, "Evangeline," stands over the bank of the Bayou Teche. Longfellow Evangeline State Park is located north of the historic district.
The African American Museum, located in the historic district, utilizes the latest technology to provide insights into the culture as well as life of the Free People of Color in the community as well as their contributions to the Attakapas region from the 1750s over. They were integral to building as well as service trades. Many descended from Africans from the Senegambian region of West Africa as well as from French as well as Spanish colonists.
The freshly renovated Old Teche Theater, when moreover offers entertainment to the town. The 1930′s Art Deco movie house is currently converted into a television & film studio as well as a performing arts venue as well as recording studio.
Notre Dame Church, founded in 1939 to house African-American catholics of the region.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Martinville,_Louisiana