Welcome to Breaux Bridge

Look up a name in the old Breaux Bridge telephone directory and you may need a nickname, because the book has long been known for listing residents that way. The town has a habit of producing performers, too: guitarist Sonny Landreth and saxophonist Branford Marsalis are on its list of notable people, alongside educator Lottie Beebe and the politicians Scott Angelle and Fred Mills Jr. Breaux Bridge was home to 443 people at the 1880 census.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 5.1 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 — 7.2 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

• History of St. Bernard Catholic School — steps away
• Legend of Bayou Teche / La Legende du Bayou Teche — steps away
• The Bridge of 1852 — steps away
• Breaux Bridge, Louisiana / Pont de Breaux, Louisiane — steps away