050126-VERMILLIONVILLE-Lafayette, LA
050126-VERMILLIONVILLE-Lafayette, LA
Knowing that we were going to stop for a couple of nights in Lafayette, we checked for local color or attractions we might enjoy, and found an historic park called Vermillionville.
It’s a restored 1800’s Cajun community that was started by a group from Nova Scotia.
At the time, the area was called Arcadia, Canada – and these French Canadians migrated to Louisiana. These were the original Creoles and the name Cajun is a bastardized version of Arcadians.
There are representative buildings such as a schoolhouse, church, boathouse, family dwellings, blacksmith forge, and for the 2nd time this week, I rode a small ferry. Now I am talking real small. You’ll have to see the photo. It would fit inside the Beast.
All in all, it was an interesting experience and this small village was the beginning of and finally became the city of Lafayette in 1839.
Knowing that we were going to stop for a couple of nights in Lafayette, we checked for local color or attractions we might enjoy, and found an historic park called Vermillionville.
It’s a restored 1800’s Cajun community that was started by a group from Nova Scotia.
At the time, the area was called Arcadia, Canada – and these French Canadians migrated to Louisiana. These were the original Creoles and the name Cajun is a bastardized version of Arcadians.
There are representative buildings such as a schoolhouse, church, boathouse, family dwellings, blacksmith forge, and for the 2nd time this week, I rode a small ferry. Now I am talking real small. You’ll have to see the photo. It would fit inside the Beast.
All in all, it was an interesting experience and this small village was the beginning of and finally became the city of Lafayette in 1839.
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