Assumption School

Assumption School was one link in a national network. The Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, who staffed it, were founded by Katharine Drexel on February 12, 1891, to serve Native American and African American communities, and Drexel spent much of her family fortune on schools for them. The order's best-known Louisiana work is Xavier University in New Orleans, which Drexel founded in 1915 as a high school; it was accredited in 1921 and became a university in 1925. The Carencro school was listed on the National Register on November 29, 2001.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 8.2 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 12 mi
  Nearly 10,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp at the south end of Lake Martin, owned by The Nature Conservancy, with a boardwalk and a rookery of egrets, spoonbills and alligators.
• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — 14 mi
  A heritage park in Opelousas built around the Venus House of about 1791, the home of a free Creole woman of color, Marie Francois Venus, with an old schoolhouse, Methodist church and the visitor center's zydeco music exhibit.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 19 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.

More markers nearby

• The Lynching of Louis Senegal and Antoine Domingue — 0.3 mi
• Pierre Dugat Home Site — 5.8 mi
• The Triangle (Ti-fer) — 6.0 mi
• Miss Rose's Bar — 6.1 mi