Problem was, there was another town, a suburb of New Orleans, also called Lafayette. In , however, New Orleans incorporated the other Lafayette into its boundaries, allowing the Acadian-area of Lafayette to finally switch names. By then, Lafayette was truly the hub city of Acadiana, with a railroad stop, a stable population, and business corridor.
A public research university with over 18, students, the roots of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette stretch back to when the state legislature passed an act for the creation of a school in southwest Louisiana. In , the institution changed its name, likely for the final time, to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette ULL. After Pop Stinson passed away in , his widow reopened the restaurant as Mrs.
Now run by third-generation members of the Dwyer family, a luncheon steam table of daily special entrees and sides beckons. Smothered steak, smothered chicken, smothered pork chop, cow tongue. Creamed spinach, eggplant casserole, smothered cabbage. Dwyer's may be the oldest restaurant in town but not by much. Poor Boy's Riverside Inn began business in as a snowball and sandwich cart, while Don's Seafood and Steakhouse opened as a beer hall in Originally built as a headquarters for numerous oil companies the Heymann Oil Center remains a sort of city within a city in central Lafayette.
Maurice Heymann, a department store mogul, real estate developer, and philanthropist originally from New Orleans opened his eponymous Center to capitalize on Texas and Lake Charles-area oil companies then relocating their production to the Gulf Coast. The Oil Center also included the Petroleum Club , once a private dining space for oil executives, but open to the public since Heymann continued to invest in the area adjoining the Center.
Today, the oil city remains a close-knit community of offices, restaurants, and shops. Domengeaux worked to recruit teachers from Francophone countries and embraced French language immersion instruction at home and abroad.
The Cajundome is a 13,seat arena, convention center, and much-beloved symbol of the Lafayette skyline. In , the Dome was enlarged to include an over 37,square-foot convention center addition. A global-themed, annual music, arts, and food event, Festival International de Louisiane is the largest international music and arts festival in the United States. The following year, festival organizers moved the event to late April, taking advantage of the milder spring weather.
Since then, Festival International has hosted bands from around the world, while placing local musicians in an international context. Today, the five-day festival, spread over downtown-area seven stages, draws upwards of , attendees.
Staffed by 2, volunteers, Festival International remains free and open to the public. An exemplar of the New Urbanism design movement, River Ranch features a centrally located town square, surrounded by walkable streets and sidewalks, dotted with green spaces and lakes, and filled with houses designed in seven major architectural styles. He was a brave man. He had with him there a young man, a relative I think, whose name I have forgotten. They fought very nearly together.
Not long after that meeting, he traveled to the Military Academy at Norwich, Vermont, where the idea of founding a college at Easton first came to mind. The concept gained further traction when Porter visited the grounds of Dartmouth College, the liberal arts college founded in Hanover, New Hampshire in The enthusiastic attorney returned to Easton to begin building the foundation for his dream.
It is likely that Mr. Porter, who so recently had been singled out by Gen. Lafayette and shown personal attention, suggested the name at the same time as he suggested the establishment of the college.
William C. Cattell, President of Lafayette from , made his own investigations in France. In , the College purchased nine acres of land on a hill across Bushkill Creek from Easton.
Thousands of French soldiers and sailors fought and died in the American Revolution, so why is Lafayette the first French name on every American tongue? His high rank and great wealth certainly had something to do with it: Lafayette was living, breathing evidence that the old European order had faith in a young country on the other side of the Atlantic.
More important, though, might have been his earnest enthusiasm for the American cause and his unflagging determination to contribute to its success. Lafayette Motors Co. It all started on June 13, , when the year-old Lafayette reached North Island, South Carolina with some 20 officers and servants on a ship he had optimistically christened the Victoire —Victory. Hailing from a line of men who fought and died for their country, Lafayette had dreamed of martial glory since childhood.
But the French army quashed his hopes in when a wave of reforms removed from active duty hundreds of young officers who, like Lafayette, had risen through the ranks thanks to money and connections.
Fighting under George Washington in the Continental Army represented a second chance. But Congress and Washington hesitated; surely the rank was meant to be honorary. They had grown wary of the French officers who had been sailing across the Atlantic to join the American army. Although many were fine soldiers, some were mercenaries or troublemakers who had been driven from the French army.
Others expressed open disdain for the American military. America would soon learn that Lafayette was an exception. What he lacked in experience he made up in funds and influence. It helped that Lafayette was immensely likeable: His straightforward demeanor and self-deprecating sense of humor sometimes rendered him out-of-place in the perfumed halls of Versailles, but they endeared him to Americans.
If he was willing to forego a salary, he would be welcomed in the army. Lafayette was introduced to the American people as the French aristocrat who had shed blood on behalf of their freedom. In March of Lafayette put his enthusiasm for the American cause and his personable disposition to use in recruiting a group of Oneida men to fight under his command.
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