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* For many years, one of the first museums in Southern Louisiana dedicated to the history of the Acadians and the Cajun culture was on Main Street near the present day Loreauville High School.

The museum was privately owned and funded by a local resident well versed in the history and culture of the Acadians.

The Museum site was located behind a private home West of School Drive and North of the existing Loreauville High School Gymnasium.

The Museum area was largely an outdoors facility in a large horseshoe shape with the apex of the horseshoe near Bayou Teche.

The Museum was in operation from approximately 1970 until the early 1980s.

Several period buildings were donated to the museum from local residents and moved to the site, including the original one room schoolhouse that was used in Loreauville between 1900 and 1925.

Other displays in the museum celebrated local Cajun culture with displays of period clothing, housewares, and early historic relics from the 19th century.

A small collection of the artifacts from the Loreauville museum were donated to the Acadian Village upon the closure of the Loreauville Museum.