Scholastique Picou Breaux

At 33, Scholastique Breaux was a widow with land and a plan. Her husband, Agricole, had replaced the old footbridge with a wagon bridge in 1817. On August 25, 1829, she founded the town, laid out its streets and sold lots to Acadian settlers. Her story did not end with the founding: she later remarried and had two more children, so the woman who laid out the town went on to a second family in it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 4.9 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.
• Vermilionville — 7.0 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.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 11 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 — 11 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

• Cajun Warrior — steps away
• Breaux Bridge / Pont-Breaux — steps away
• Most Rev. Jules B. Jeanmard, D.D. — steps away
• Pont Breaux, Louisiane — steps away