Holy Rosary Institute

Wikipedia credits Rev. Philip Keller and the Sisters of the Holy Family with founding the institute in 1913 to give Black women vocational and technical training and to prepare teachers for rural Black schools. It turned co-educational in 1947, closed its boarding facilities in 1974 and shut in 1993. The Greek Revival building, put up in 1913, went on the National Register on December 3, 1980. In 2020 the Holy Rosary Redevelopment Corporation broke ground on a three-phase restoration of the campus.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 1.4 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 — 6.2 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.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 12 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.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 13 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.

More markers nearby

• Miss Rose's Bar — 1.0 mi
• The Triangle (Ti-fer) — 1.1 mi
• Welcome to Freetown / Bienvenue à Freetown — 1.3 mi
• Bendel Housekeeper's Home — 1.3 mi