* The Loreauville branch of the Iberia Parish Public Library, located on Main Street at the intersection of Breaux Street, this 1960s architectural styled facility was constructed in the late 1960s to serve the residents of Loreauville.

So named for Oscar J. Oubre, the Loreauville branch of the OJ Oubre lumber company operated from the present location of the Judice Building Supplies store.

* Judice Building Supplies, a full service lumber and hardware store is located on main street in Loreauville.

Fausse Point, was established near present-day Loreauville by late June 1765.

On April 15, 1871, the name was changed from Picouville to Loreauville for Ozaire Loreau, who had contributed the property for the old Catholic Church and cemetery, and had also aided in the agricultural, industrial and political growth of the village

The total school enrollment in Loreauville village was 210 (* Note these values reflect enrollment of village residents, not total enrollment in the local school ) in 2005-2009.

INCOME: The median income of households in Loreauville village was $ 17, 424.

Four percent of the people in Loreauville village was Hispanic.

Seventy-seven percent of the people in Loreauville village was White non-Hispanic.

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

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.

One processing site was located approximately 1 / 2 mile North of the Loreauville Bridge on Bridge Street on the East bank of Bayou Teche.

* The State National Bank Building, located at the intersection of main street and Ed Broussard Road, this masonry facility was constructed in the early 1960s and served as the only financial institution in Loreauville for many years.

The structure was demolished in the 1990s and in its location is the Loreauville Town Hall.

* From the 1940s until it was removed in the mid 1980s, Loreauville had a Tin Man style water tower which was located adjacent to the existing Loreauville Volunteer Fire Department Fire Station on Bridge Street.

* Loreauville Movie Theater, this wood framed structure was located on Main Street South of Bridge Street adjacent to Ed Broussard Marine Services.

The original Loreauville clinic was located in a wood framed structure in what is now the St. Joseph's Catholic Church parking lot.

The Patio restaurant is a family-owned and-operated business that operated out of this location for many years until the 21st century when it relocated nearer to New Iberia on Loreauville Road ( Louisiana Highway 86 ) near the intersection of Sugar Oaks Road.

* Loreauville has several annual parades each year with attendance by many of the local inhabitants as participants or attendees.

* Loreauville has continued its boat building tradition with " shallow water outboards " first developed by a local machinist.

Loreauville is a village in Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States.

* Loreauville High School, one of five public High Schools in Iberia Parish Louisiana.

* Loreauville Substation of the Iberia Parish Sheriff's Department, located on main street adjacent to the Meat Market, this small wood framed structure served as a police sub-station and radio dispatch terminal for a short period during the 1970s.

* Loreauville Hospital, part of the rural network of hospitals in Louisiana, the facility is located at the Southern end of the village along the East side of Main Street ( Louisiana Highway 86 ).

** Loreauville, Louisiana

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Loreauville is located at ( 30. 059388 ,-91. 736830 ).

As of the census of 2005-2009, there were 370 households in the Village of Loreauville.

Families made up 53 percent of the households in the Village of Loreauville.

Non-family households made up 47 percent of all households in Loreauville village.

NATIVITY AND LANGUAGE: Less than 0. 5 percent of the people living in the Village of Loreauville in 2005-2009 were foreign born.

Among people at least five years old living in the Village of Loreauville in 2005-2009, 34 percent spoke a language other than English at home.

GEOGRAPHIC MOBILITY: In 2005-2009, 88 percent of the people at least one year old living in the Village of Loreauville were living in the same residence one year earlier ; 12 percent had moved during the past year from another residence in the same county, less than 0. 5 percent from another county in the same state, less than 0. 5 percent from another state, and less than 0. 5 percent from abroad.

INDUSTRIES: In 2005-2009, for the employed population 16 years and older, the leading industries in Loreauville village were Manufacturing, 20 percent, and Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and mining, 19 percent.

TRAVEL TO WORK: Eighty-five percent of Loreauville village workers drove to work alone in 2005-2009, 10 percent carpooled, less than 0. 5 percent took public transportation, and 1 percent used other means.

HOUSING CHARACTERISTICS: In 2005-2009, Loreauville village had a total of 430 housing units, 14 percent of which were vacant.

* Boat building, in many shapes and forms, is an important cultural activity that has impacted the Village of Loreauville.

When the Chicago and Alton Railroad connected with the Kansas City branch at Roodhouse, Hillview was a lumber camp called Happy Ville.

By 1896, the community was a lumber camp of 13 houses built on both sides of the southern branch of Blacklick Creek, which forms the border of Blacklick Township on the north side and Jackson Township on the south side.

The MBTA's bus service extends into neighboring Hingham, and the Greenbush Line of the commuter rail recently re-opened, with its closest station being at Nantasket Junction, site of the former Hingham Lumber Company lumber yard, which is where the Hull branch of the railroad once connected.

Cuppy's father, Thomas Jefferson Cuppy ( 1844 – 1912 ), was at different times a grain dealer, a seller of farm implements and a lumber buyer for the Eel River branch of the Wabash Railroad.

This branch would provide a healthy income from the start, shipping stone, lumber, and coal from Mt.