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1200 N. Main Street. St. Martinville, LA 70582. Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site explores the cultural interplay among the diverse peoples along the famed Bayou Teche. Acadians and Creoles, Indians and Africans, Frenchmen and Spaniards, slaves and free people of color-all contributed to the historical tradition of cultural diversity in ...
Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site--(1200 N. Main Street, St. Martinville, LA 70582; 337-394-3754 or 1-888-677-2900) is located on LA 31 in St. Martinville, 30 minutes southeast of Lafayette. The site tells the tale of the French-speaking people of the Bayou Teche area.
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Evangeline State Park. 47 reviews. #10 of 73 things to do in Lafayette. State ParksObservatories & PlanetariumsHistory Museums. Write a review. About. The park grounds include a museum, a Creole plantation and an 18th-century Acadian shack. Suggest edits to improve what we show. Improve this listing.
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It’s not often that a poem can awaken the public to the history of an entire culture, but "Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie" has done just that. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous fictional tale tells of an Acadian woman named Evangeline, who was separated from her beloved Gabriel during the Acadians’ expulsion from Nova Scotia (circa 1755). The poem’...
Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Sitehonors the story of Evangeline and the author who made her famous. The main attraction here is Maison Olivier, a Creole plantation built around 1815 that once grew indigo, cotton and sugar. Sitting on the banks of Bayou Teche in the town of St. Martinville, Maison Olivier features a mix of French, Creole and...
Enjoy sweeping views of the Bayou Teche and the surrounding landscape from the long veranda that stretches across the second floor of the big house. The blacksmith shop and visitor center, which contains an outstanding museum, are nearby, and walking down the path towards the bayou you’ll find the Acadian farmstead that includes a kitchen and barn....
While in St. Martinville, see the Acadian Memorial, which honors those who settled in the area after being exiled from Canada in the mid-18th century. Nearby Avery Island is home to the TABASCO hot sauce factory and the nature preserve known as Jungle Gardens. And in Lafayette, visit Acadian Village, featuring authentic Acadian homes from the 19th ...
Evangeline State Park. 47 reviews. #10 of 73 things to do in Lafayette. State ParksObservatories & PlanetariumsHistory Museums. Write a review. About. The park grounds include a museum, a Creole plantation and an 18th-century Acadian shack. Suggest edits to improve what we show. Improve this listing.
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Evangeline State Park is about 30 minutes south of Lafayette, but the drive there and the time spent gives one a nice sense of life faced by Louisiana's Creole and Acadian settlers. The main attraction is the restored home of the Olivier family.
It is the oldest state park site in Louisiana, founded in 1934 as the Longfellow-Evangeline State Commemorative Area. Evangeline was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's enormously popular 1847 epic poem about Acadian lovers, who are now figures in local history. In the town center, the Evangeline Oak is the legendary meeting place of the two lovers ...
