Jarrell Home

The boy who grew up in this cottage became a bishop. Charles Michael Jarrell was born in Opelousas in 1940, went through the public schools, then to Immaculata Minor Seminary in Lafayette and the Catholic University of America. He was ordained on June 3, 1967, and spent years as a parish priest, ending at Sacred Heart in Ville Platte. In 1993 he became bishop of Houma-Thibodaux, and in December 2002 he was installed as bishop of Lafayette, retiring in 2016.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — steps away
  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.
• Prairie Acadian Cultural Center — 21 mi
  A National Park Service center in Eunice on the Cajun prairie, with exhibits on the Acadians who settled the prairies, a Courir de Mardi Gras display, free music and cooking demonstrations, and the shuttered Liberty Theatre nearby.
• Vermilionville — 22 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.
• Atchafalaya Welcome Center — 25 mi
  A state welcome center inside the Atchafalaya Basin, the nation's largest river swamp, with exhibits on Basin history and life, a film, a crawfishing boat and French-speaking staff.

More markers nearby

• Opelousas Firsts and Famous / Hall of Fame — steps away
• J.S. Clark High School — steps away
• Mary Jane Steam Engine Train — steps away
• Doctor's Office — steps away