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Saint Martinville: St. Martin parish courthouse St. Martin parish courthouse, Saint Martinville, Louisiana.

Saint Martinville

Louisiana, United States
Also known as: Poste des Attakapas
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Saint Martinville, city, seat (1811) of St. Martin parish, southern Louisiana, U.S. It lies on Bayou Teche, about 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Lafayette. Originally known as Poste des Attakapas (for a local Indian tribe), it was settled about 1760. A colony of Acadians, expelled by the British from Nova Scotia, arrived in 1765; this event laid ground for the story of Evangeline made famous in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem. Evangeline’s romance with Gabriel...

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