Valsin Broussard

The city's own history page records that Valsin Broussard formed the community's first vigilante committee after his store was robbed. He was a direct descendant of Joseph Broussard dit Beausoleil, who led Acadian resistance to the British in the 1750s and was among the first 200 Acadians to reach Louisiana, aboard the Santo Domingo on February 27, 1765. Beausoleil died that September near St. Martinville. The settlement that took Valsin's name in 1884 was then a horse-and-buggy community among sugarcane plantation homes.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — 4.5 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 — 5.8 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.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 9.1 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.
• African American Museum, St. Martinville — 9.2 mi
  A museum in the St. Martinville Cultural Heritage Center on the arrival of Africans in Southwest Louisiana, slavery, the free people of color and Reconstruction, with the fourteen-panel exhibit The Shackles of Memory.

More markers nearby

• Historic Downtown Broussard — steps away
• City of Broussard — 0.2 mi
• Valsin House — 0.7 mi
• St. Cecilia School — 0.7 mi