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The Vermilion River (or the Bayou Vermilion, French: Rivière Vermilion) is a 70.0-mile-long (112.7 km) [2] bayou in southern Louisiana in the United States.It is formed on the common boundary of Lafayette and St. Martin parishes by a confluence of small bayous flowing from St. Landry Parish, and flows generally southward through Lafayette and Vermilion parishes, past the cities of Lafayette ...
Congressional district. 3rd. Vermilion Parish (French: Paroisse de Vermillion) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana, created in 1844. [1] The parish seat is Abbeville. [2] Vermilion Parish is part of the Lafayette metropolitan statistical area, and located in southern Acadiana. At the 2020 U.S. census, the population was 57,359.
Website. cityofabbeville.net. Abbeville is a city in, and the parish seat of, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States. [4][5] The population was 12,257 at the 2010 census. [6] At the 2020 population estimates program, the population of the city was 11,927. [7] It is located 21 miles (34 km) southwest of Lafayette.
Vermilionville Historic Village. Coordinates: 30°12′55″N 91°59′41″W. Maison des Cultures, Vermilionville Historic Village. Vermilionville Historic Village, located in Lafayette, Louisiana, is a Cajun and Creole living history museum with a combination of restored and replica historic structures. [1][2]
Morgan Mounds ( 16 VM 9) is an important archaeological site of the Coastal Coles Creek culture, built and occupied by Native Americans from 700 to 1000 CE on Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana. Of the 45 recorded Coastal Coles Creek sites in the Petite Anse region, it is the only one with ceremonial substructure mounds.
Vermilion Parish: 113: Abbeville: 1844: from part of Lafayette Parish. Both the Vermilion River and Vermilion Bay: 56,992: 1,538 sq mi (3,983 km 2) Vernon Parish: 115: Leesville: 1871: from parts of Natchitoches Parish, Rapides Parish and Sabine Parish. Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, the first U.S. President 46,250: 1,341 sq mi ...
108 N. Louisiana. 29°58′27″N 92°07′59″W / 29.974167°N 92.133056°W / 29.974167; -92.133056 (Chauviere House) Abbeville. 9. Downtown Abbeville Historic District. Downtown Abbeville Historic District. November 7, 1995. (#95001261) Roughly bounded by State and 1st Sts., Vermilion Bayou, and Pere Megret and Concord Sts.
Just before reaching Bayou Vermilion, also known as the Vermilion River, LA 14 Bus. intersects US 167 (Park Avenue) at the latter's southern terminus. It then crosses a vertical lift bridge over the bayou and into downtown Abbeville. Over the next several blocks, the route forms the northern border of the city's Historic District, passing many ...