City of Broussard

The Old Spanish Trail was a promoter's road before it was a highway. Its backers ran the project from San Antonio, where an executive committee of businessmen met weekly at the Gunter Hotel, and the route grew to almost 2,750 miles across eight states and 67 counties. It entered Louisiana by ferry at Logtown and replaced State Route 2. By 1927 much of the trail had become US 90 and US 80. Broussard's own tie is recent: the town became an official Old Spanish Trail city in 2019.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 4.7 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 — 5.8 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.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 8.9 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.
• African American Museum, St. Martinville — 9.0 mi
  A museum in the St. Martinville Cultural Heritage Center on the arrival of Africans in Southwest Louisiana, slavery, the free people of color and Reconstruction, with the fourteen-panel exhibit The Shackles of Memory.

More markers nearby

• Historic Downtown Broussard — 0.2 mi
• Valsin Broussard — 0.2 mi
• Valsin House — 0.4 mi
• St. Cecilia School — 0.5 mi