Welcome to Arnaudville

Before it was Arnaudville it was La Murière, and before that an Atakapa village stood on the spot. French settlers later called the meeting of Bayou Teche and Bayou Fuselier La Jonction, the junction, and many residents still do. The Arnaud family gave land for a church that still stands, the town took their name, and it was incorporated in 1870. It straddles two parishes, St. Martin and St. Landry. Since 2005 artists and musicians have been moving in, and the Saint Luc French Immersion and Cultural Campus works to keep Louisiana French spoken.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — 13 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.
• Atchafalaya Welcome Center — 13 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.
• Vermilionville — 13 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 — 13 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.

More markers nearby

• Stephanie-Martin Duralde House — 4.2 mi
• Poché's — 5.9 mi
• Louis Hebert — 6.1 mi
• Academy of the Sacred Heart — 6.9 mi