Abbeville, Louisiana Abbeville, Louisiana State Louisiana Parish Vermilion - water 0.0 sq mi (0 km2), 0% Location of Abbeville in Louisiana Location of Louisiana in the United States Abbeville is a town/city in and the church seat of Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States, 150 miles (240 km) west of New Orleans and 60 miles (97 km) southwest of Baton Rouge. The populace was 12,257 at the 2010 census. Formerly called La Chapelle, the territory that would turn into Abbeville was purchased by beginning father Pere Antoine Desire Megret (Pere is French for 'Father'), a Capuchin missionary on July 25, 1843 for $900.
The second theory which also cannot be discounted states that it is a combination of "Abbe" for Abbe Megret and "ville" the French word for town thus Abbe's town.
Antoine Jacques Desire Megret was found, and that he was born on May 23, 1797, at Abbeville and became founder of Abbeville in Louisiana. Dr Mary-Theresa Mac - Carthy wrote in her article Un Autre Abbeville in the 1996 version of Bulletin de la Societe des Antiquaires de Picardie (translation by Father Herbert), Their Abbeville is truly la ville de l'abbe [the priest's town]. Abbeville is positioned at 29 58 31.422 N 92 7 37.7652 W and has an altitude of 16 feet (4.9 m). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 5.7 square miles (14.7629 km2), of which, 5.7 square miles (15 km2) of it is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) of it (0.53%) is water.
Abbeville is positioned near the southern end of U.S.
Abbeville Chris Crusta Memorial Airport is in the easterly part of the city.
The Vermilion River runs through downtown, and a several canals and coullies run through other parts of Abbeville.
Climate data for Abbeville, Louisiana Abbeville is the principal town/city of the Abbeville Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Vermilion Parish.
In 2010 Abbeville had a populace of 12,257.
Abbeville is an agricultural trade and refining center for rice, sugarcane, dairy products, locally sold corn, cotton, and seafood, in particular crawfish, alligator, and crab. The petroleum and natural gas fields off the coast in the Gulf of Mexico are serviced by companies throughout the region including Abbeville. Chemical products and consumer goods are produced locally. A related tourist attraction is a large open-kettle sugarcane syrup mill. The City of Abbeville is served by the Vermilion Parish School District.
Abbeville High School Abbeville is the home of HHC (headquarters company), 2nd Battalion, 156th Infantry (mech.), of the Louisiana Army National Guard.
Abbeville is home to a several festivals: Les Lumieres du Village d'Abbeville The Abbey Players' Theater is a prominent small-town playhouse in Abbeville.
Abbeville is the home of various historic buildings that have been added periodically to the National Historic Register.
Starting in 1987, the Abbeville Commercial Historic District, in the region surrounded by Concord, State, Lafayette, and Jefferson Streets, was added to the register.
That same year, the Abbeville Residential Historic District was created between W.
Oak, State, Cherry, and the Vermilion River.
In the 1990s, the Ovide Broussard House, Chauviere House, Gordy House, Lyons House, and the Caldwell House were all added, in addition to the Downtown Abbeville Historic District, which is bounded by State, 1st, Pere Megret, and Concord St and the Vermilion Bayou.
North of Abbeville, A La Bonne Veillee was added in 1984. The Freshwater Bayou Deepwater Channel joins Abbeville to the Gulf of Mexico, and the Intracoastal Waterway runs south of the city. The 1988 remake of the 1958 film The Blob was filmed in Abbeville.
Flaherty chose Abbeville in 1948 as his base of operations amid the recording of Louisiana Story.
Abbeville is one of the chief locations in the TV Series True Detective.
Robert Angers (1919 1988), journalist born in Abbeville, established Acadiana Profile magazine.
Allen Bares (1936 2008), represented Lafayette Parish in both homes of the Louisiana State Legislature from 1972 to 1992; Vermilion Parish native.
Caldwell (1892 1966), building contractor convicted in the Louisiana Hayride scandals of 1939-1940; born in Abbeville.
Bobby Charles Guidry (1938 2010), songwriter and musician, wrote See You Later Alligator & Walking to New Orleans; born in Abbeville.
Sammy Kershaw, (born 1958), a Country music artist, born in close-by Kaplan, resides in Abbeville.
Le - Blanc, (1894-1971), businessman and politician who made a fortune in the 1950s in the patent medicine Hadacol, lived most of his life and died in Abbeville.
Anthony Levine, (born 1987), experienced American football player; born in Abbeville.
Gerald Long, (born 1944), state senator from Natchitoches; formerly resided in Abbeville Charlton Lyons, (1894-1973), considered the "Father of the Republican Party in Louisiana", born near Abbeville.
Brandon Mitchell, (born 1975), former experienced American football player; born in Abbeville.
George Petty (1894 1975), pin-up artist; born in Abbeville.
Theriot (1914 1973), born in close-by Erath; Mayor of Abbeville (1954 1960); Louisiana state comptroller (1960 1973); founder of the Dairy Festival (now known as the Cattle Festival).
Theriot (born 1954), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1979 to 1996; former Vermilion Parish clerk of court; educator and Abbeville native.
Donald Trahan (born 1950), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2004 to 2008 for Lafayette and Vermilion churches; born in Abbeville Anon 2014 Anon 2015 U.
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