Carencro, Louisiana
Carencro, Louisiana (de Carencro) Downtown Carencro, Downtown Carencro Official name: City of Carencro Location of Carencro in Louisiana Carencro (historically French: St.-Pierre) is a small town/city in Lafayette Parish, Louisiana.
Carencro is part of the Lafayette Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Many senior Carencro natives attest that the town's name originates from before the American Civil War.
According to this small-town legend, Native Americans told Vermilionville pioneer that in old times a large number of "carrion crows" (vultures, called carencro in French) had settled around the Vermilion River between Lafayette and Opelousas, Louisiana to feast on a fish die-off.
There is a related theory, consistent with the spelling, that the place is titled for the carencro t te rouge, a red-headed buzzard referred to by European explorers as early as 1699, and described in 1774 by Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz.
Pierre, in the late 19th century, the town was retitled Carencro, after the "carrion crow" (vulture) legend.
Although Carencro's current town center lies well west of the Vermilion River, this legend has permanence inside the community.
Few European citizens settled in the Carencro region (around Lafayette) until the coming of the Acadian refugees in the 18th century.
Some of the Acadians transported in 1765 to the Attakapas precinct were given lands along Bayou Carencro, although probably not in what is now the town of Carencro.
Jean and Marin Mouton were among the early pioneer on Bayou Carencro.
Other early pioneer in the Carencro region were Charles Peck, Traveille Bernard, Rosamond Breaux, Ovignar Arceneaux, and the Babineaux family.
An 1803 census of the Carencro region listed family names including Arceneaux, Babineaux, Benoit, Bernard, Breaux, Carmouche, Caruthers, Comeaux, Cormier, Guilbeaux, Hebert, Holway, Le - Blanc, Melancon, Mire, Mouton, Pierre, Prejean, Roger, St.
The first postal service in Carencro was established on January 11, 1872, with Auguste Melchior as postmaster.
According to Roger Baudier's history of the Catholic Church of Louisiana, the Carencro region was first served from Grand Coteau, Louisiana, later from Vermilionville, and then from Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
Pierre au Carencro, titled for Pierre Cormier, who donated territory for the first church.
Before a church was established at Carencro, services were held in the Carmouche blacksmith shop.
Father Guillot died of yellow fever while serving in Carencro and was buried in the church cemetery.
Some three years after his coming to Carencro, he was obliged to leave.
Father Grimeaux, in addition to serving as pastor, organized and played clarinet in the Carencro Brass Band.
Our Lady of the Assumption Religious Complex consists of the church, rectory, school, Drexel Parish Hall (former Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament Convent), the church cemetery, and St.
Assumption School was the combination of a several black schools in the area.
After the 1950s, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament taught at Carencro Catholic School, positioned at the west end of Church Street.
Pierre School to form Carencro Catholic.
Ann's School of Carencro, in 1897.
In 1874, what was probably the first school in Carencro, was opened on the Auguste Melchior farm.
His wife, Viviana, taught at the Carencro school.
In 1889, Carencro had two private schools.
That year, the first enhance school was assembled in Carencro, and a second story was added to it 10 years later.
Pierre, at Carencro, born only a short time ago, tends to stretch itself in an astonishing fashion with numbers of buildings where all kinds of trades and professions are prospering there.
Dupuis, one of the larger cane growers of the area, formed the Carencro Sugar Company to build another sugar foundry alongside Morgan's Railroad.
There were a several horse-powered cotton gins in Carencro before 1876, but, in that year, Avignac Arceneaux assembled the first steam-powered gin in the church.
In 1889, 1,800 bales of cotton were shipped from the Carencro Station.
Cotton gins continued to operate in Carencro until the middle 1970s, when the last two, Cotton Products Co.
In 1891, historian William Henry Perrin suggested that "there is no prettier site for a town (than Carencro) nor one with more solid advantages than comprised in this place.
Carencro's St.
Carencro notables such as former postmaster William J.
Carencro's cemetery is above ground, unlike low-lying areas to the east in the Atchafalaya Basin and areas below Baton Rouge, which eschew the ground-level graves of Lafayette (as well as points west and north) for mausoleums.
The City Hall and Fire Station, designed by small-town architect Lynn Guidry, is a undivided counterpoint to the traditional Catholic church, and can be seen at the southern turn of Church Street east of U.S.
Musician Marc Broussard is a native of the town and titled his primary label debut album Carencro after it.
Carencro is also famous as the place of birth of Todd Patin Jr.
A several miles south of Sunset and Opelousas Louisiana, Carencro is a noted stop off point for Zydeco musicians.
NFL running back for the New England Patriots Kevin Faulk maintains a residence in his home town Carencro.
Carencro businessman Bobby Badon is a former state representative for District 39.Julie Emerson, a Carencro communications specialist, is the incoming Republican member of the state House for District 39, effective January 2016.
Carencro is positioned at 30 18 51 N 92 2 37 W (30.314232, -92.043614) and has an altitude of 39 feet (11.9 m). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.1 square miles (16 km2), all land.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 30.2% under the age of 18, 9.2% from 18 to 24, 28.5% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 12.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
- The name "Carencro" is pronounced as "Care-en-crow" from carrion.
Jim Bradshaw, "Carencro name comes from old Attakapas legend", Lafayette (LA) Daily Advertiser, January 27, 1998.
City of Carencro Municipalities and communities of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States Broussard Carencro Lafayette Scott Youngsville
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