The Lynching of Louis Senegal and Antoine Domingue

Louis Senegal, also recorded as Louis or Lewis Sinclair, was accused of attempting to assault a white farmer's wife. He denied it and had no trial. Newspapers reported that the sheriff foiled a first attempt to take him from the Lafayette parish jail; about 500 men then seized him at Carencro in March 1896, and his body was found on March 24. Antoine Domingue was ambushed and shot dead in November 1906 by white farmers. A local coalition counts six known lynching victims nearby, among them Rosemond Cormier and his 15-year-old daughter Rosalie, killed in Lafayette in 1899.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 8.0 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.
• 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.
• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — 15 mi
  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.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 19 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.

More markers nearby

• Assumption School — 0.3 mi
• Pierre Dugat Home Site — 5.7 mi
• The Triangle (Ti-fer) — 5.8 mi
• Miss Rose's Bar — 5.9 mi