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The Arnaud family immigrated to Veracruz, MX and made a fortune. They later returned to the Ubaye Valley and built exquisite Mexican villas in the French Alps. My great grandmother was French.✌️

May An “America” that is lost forever rest eternally in our hearts and nourish our souls until the end of time.

My whole family is buried in that graveyard, mother, sister, all uncles, all aunts, cousins. Grandparents.. my uncle Troy bordelon is actually the one who carved the “haunted face” into the tree when he was younger. He is now buried directly in front of it.

My grandmother's father was born at Moundville and her mother at Magnolia Ridge. She was born and lived at Magnolia Ridge until 1930. The estate for Moundville hasn't been probated since 1874 and it is a disgrace that the house has been allowed to decay. I was last at Moundville in 2008 and have pictures of the place. Somehow I missed the graveyard and the 3rd slave cabin.

No trenches? Lol

Christ! We can't all read that fast.

Really neat. Tanks, beb.

Well done. Thank you. Edit: Bruh, I just watched it again. With my kids. Unflinching Beauty. Made my eyes sweat. ty

Miss Abbeville would pick lemons and grapefruit in my aunt and uncle's backyard I remember their Black Lab loved to eat my uncle's Tomatoes right from the vines. I have Steen's in my cupboard. Wonder if Shucks is still doing really well.

I was born in Abbeville

Awesome been living in op all my life

Hermoso yo bibi ahi en opelousas

It’s a shame how the railroad went down

My grandfather which is from Opelousas which is right next to Washington was the best friend of the child of the owner of the house of time he told me he and his friend would go down in the basement which was the hospital during the time sleep down there and one night he heard screams and agony and saw ghost of civil war soldiers

Great collection of photographs of historic structures! Thanks for sharing these photos and ultimately saving these buildings for generations to come via your video.

Looking at Bayou Courtableau now it’s somewhat different than it used to be. Do you happen to know how it flowed? It does flow past Port Barre but then there are some man made changes. A waterfall, an outlet channel that ends in the swamp and some flow down to Catahoula and Lake Fausse! Those paddle wheelers had to get there somehow.

You see the orbs in that photo @2:47?

Beautifully done!

Ca me fait rever❤️

Sympa ..et VIVE la Louisiane francophone !!!

Very cool video. This fort is named after my 4th great uncle Gen Lewis Gustave DeRussy. He had 2 brothers that were General officers in the Union army. His father was a french privateer that fought with John Paul Jones during the American Revolution. I need to visit this place one day.

Family and friends there. Love This.

Hard to read the beginning narration

Omg

Cool video!

Wow. What a beautiful video. I have so many memories of my youth in Abbeville. It’s been 26 years ago since leaving, but all that I am today is due to the influence, and Cajun culture of this little town. It will always be a part of my heart.

Well done short story. However Arnaudville is not at the head of the Bayou Tech. It's actually further north in Port Barre. At least that's where the mouth of the bayou is located. Other than that a well done video.

You are inaccurate in your labeling that your syrup has 14 grams of carbohydrates and 15 grams of sugar per my Dr at MDANDERSON in Houston. Correct your labeling or I may consider notifying the FDA of your gross error!

Great shots! Brought back some memories! Thanks!

Wonderful!

This brought back so many memories great video

Love all the great pictures of St Martinville. Hopefully I get to visit someday. There are a couple of points in your opening narrative that are in error. The first is the reference "...1754 settlers were forced to take an oath of allegiance against family members in neighboring French territory...". This was not the case. As was common practice in many European countries, subjects provided oaths of allegiance as well a fidelity to their respective sovereigns. The Acadians as British subjects, as agreed under the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, owed these oaths to the British sovereign from time to time. The Acadians from time to time since 1713 provided these oaths and had negotiated an understanding of neutrality as part of the oaths. The oaths were never provided "against" another people. The British in 1755 insisted on an unqualified oath.( Keep in mind this was a time of war between France and Britain.) This meant the Acadians could be called upon to bear arms for the British against its enemies. Although this was technically the case it was highly unlikely the British would have supplied the Acadians with arms and ammunition for fear they may disobey their oaths and turn on the British. So in other words it was a matter of a lack of trust that caused the problem. There were incidents by various Acadians where they had supplied French armies and fought alongside them; that gave the British reason to not trust all the Acadians. Your second reference "...unwilling to compromise their Roman Catholic faith...". This statement has no foundation in fact. The oaths did not preclude the Acadians from practicing their Catholic faith. Also the British administration, initially at Annapolis Royal and then at Halifax, never asked the Acadians to stop practicing their Catholic faith. Given that in Britain there were still practicing Catholics, some of whom were nobles, and that Britain had other territories/colonies that were Catholic and unmolested in their faith, it would have been beyond consideration that the Acadians would not be allowed to practice Catholicism. In fact the Acadians' right to practice their Catholic faith was expressly protected in the Treaty of Utrecht under clause XIV.

I was just at Fort Derussy today it's all closed off with no trespassing signs I metal detect too that's was good video I subscribed I live not to for from there it is spooky driving through there at night LOWLIFE TREASURE

Omg I forgot Bailey’s was red

Thanks for sharing.

Wow i can't believe a small town like Opelousas served as the capital that's so strange

C'est exceptionnellement bien fait! Je vous remercie.

My hometown you did a great job on this :)

cool place to live its relaxing at times and the fishing is good

Thank you so much! It's been so long since I've been there. I used to go there all the time when I was in college at USL in Lafayette. I knew and used to regularly visit one of the Jesuit priests who lived at the Novitiate; he was such a funny and brilliant man. When I'd tell him about my troubles, he would suggest "large doses of scotch!" Dang, now I'm so homesick: une malade nastalgie!

St. Martinville is my dad's hometown.

@5:24 all of my relatives are buried at that cemetery!

I find this video very interesting as my great-great-grandfather drowned in the Bayou Courtableau when he was in Washington on what I can only assume was a business venture (he hailed from Lockport, New York.) Beside stating that he drowned, the probate records say that he was found near what was called (as far as I can decipher the writing) the "Widow Labier Plantation". I wonder if you've run across any place there that bears this family's name? 2016 - have found out that the name of the Widow was "Labiche" and the plantation was at the junction of the Bayou Courtableau and the Bayou Carron!

Home sweet home.

We certainly enjoy your GREAT Louisiana videos, and hope you keep them coming.

Nice photos but are there no people living here?

I am a Cajun from Louisiana. Beautiful video. Well enjoyed. Thanks for sharing. Check me out on You Tube, thanks. Metal Detecting in Louisiana.

My father lived in this town when he was younger and went to the Washington High School and to go home he passed by this house and said onetime he and his friends saw a woman in a white dress looking from the top window. Kinda scary when I pass to go to my grandmothers house.

You did a wonderful job on this video!

It's cool to know that the little island I see almost every day is actually a ship!!!