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Evangeline - Oak Tree, St. Martinville, Louisiana

St. Martin Parish: The Original Cajun Country

By Laura Lee on

St. Martin Parish embodies the spirit of Acadiana with great food, lively dance halls, local shops, and the largest swamp in the United States. History Cajun roots were planted in St. Martin Parish in the mid-1700s by thousands of French Catholics, exiled from Acadia, Canada by the Anglican British…

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Tante Marie's

St. Martin Parish: Where Cajun Culture Began

By Jessica Goff on

It's where "Cajun culture began." St. Martin Parish was the earliest arrival destination for exiled Acadian families from France and Nova Scotia in the 1700s. It also cradles the story of African-American slavery to freedom in the rural South. These journeys are the tapestry of South Louisiana's…

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