Memramcook Park / Lena McBride Weaver

Scott's twin town is one of the old centers of Acadian memory. Memramcook, New Brunswick, has been called the Berceau de l'Acadie, the cradle of Acadia. In August 1755, when English soldiers tried to seize Acadians there, many hid in the woods, and about 200 families escaped deportation after Boishébert's forces beat the English on August 26. Father Camille Lefebvre founded Collège Saint-Joseph in 1864, and it hosted the first National Acadian Convention in 1881. The Monument Lefebvre went up in 1896.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 6.4 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 — 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.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 18 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 — 18 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

• General Alfred Mouton — 4.6 mi
• St. John Cathedral Oak — 4.7 mi
• Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette — 4.7 mi
• The Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist — 4.7 mi