Acadian Village and Tropical Gardens

Subject: United States
Subject 2: Louisiana
Location: Lafayette (Louisiana, United States)
Notes: V-L-1; On Mouton Road, just south of La. 342. A number of Acadian dwellings, churches and other antebellum buildings have been brought together here to represent an early "Cajun" bayou village. A footpath leads beside a sleepy bayou past the historic structures and through the Around the World Tropical Gardens. A giftshop offers Cajun crafts as well as books on the Acadians.
Image Source: Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology Photograph Collection, digitized with support from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Record ID: 2023_photocoll_0166_0109


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