Welcome
Welcome To The Bayou Vermilion District &
Vermilionville Living History Museum & Folklife Park Website.
For over 20 years Bayou Vermilion District has provided a valuable service for the citizens of Lafayette Parish, the heart of Acadiana. The Master Plan for the Bayou Vermilion District recognizes the Bayou Vermilion as one of Lafayette's most unique assets. The work performed by the District serves to beautify, conserve and manage sites along the bayou ensuring the preservation and enhancement of the natural and cultural resources in Lafayette Parish.
The Vermilionville Living History Museum & Folklife Park is an operating unit within Bayou Vermilion District created to preserve and represent Acadian, Creole, and Native American cultures within the region. It provides Lafayette residents and visitors from all over the world a wonderful opportunity to view a lifestyle as it occured during a time period spanning from 1765 to 1890. Vermilionville is the largest physical representation of Acadian and Creole culture in the world. The park sits on a beautiful tree-covered 23-acre site on the banks of the Bayou Vermilion in the heart of Lafayette, providing a place for music, food expression, cultural exchange, historic architecture and much more.
Improving the recreation quality of the Bayou Vermilion is an important mission for the Bayou Operations Team. Capturing and removing stormwater trash and other debris from the water and banks of the Bayou Vermilion dramatically improves the Bayou's water quality. Working closely with Lafayette Consolidated Government, Bayou Operations maintains several public boat launches and parks along the Bayou Vermilion.
The Bayou Vermilion District maintains and enhances life along the Bayou Vermilion for all residents of Lafayette Parish and Acadiana, and provides the best in bayou recreation and cultural history to our citizens and for visitors who regularly travel here from all over the world.
We hope you enjoy our website and the helpful information it provides.
Bayou Vermilion District Employment Opportunities
We are looking for enthusiastic, creative individuals who can deliver great customer service to our visiting guests and to the community. We value teamwork, respect, and getting the job done.
Bayou Vermilion District is currently seeking a graphic design intern to assist the PR/Marketing Coordinator. You can view a complete job description by clicking here. Instructions for resume submission is included in the description.
Vermilionville is currently seeking tour guides and dance instructors to assist with tour groups. Interested parties should have experience with tour groups and can find out more by emailing Anne by clicking here.
News 
January 17, 2012
Jambalaya, Crawfish Pie and File' Gumbo: The Bounty of Lafayette
By Katharine Shilcutt
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by Katharine Shilcutt
December 27, 2011
Teacher focused on students moving past the classroom
The Daily Advertiser
By: Kris Wartele
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by Kris Wartelle
December 15, 2011
Southern Living names Lafayette a top 10 food city in the South
Online voting for top honor begins Dec. 23
The Daily Advertiser Written by Nicholas Persac
3:27 PM, Dec. 15, 2011 |
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by Nicholas Persac
November 16, 2011
Linda Sue Fontenot, a chef for Vermilionville, loves cooking as much as life itself. As a child, Fontenot learned the craft of cooking from her mother, grandmother and the women at her church, and Fontenot cannot remember a time when she wasn't in the kitchen. She now passes on her passion of cooking to the another generation with her family cooking classes.
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by Megan Wyatt
November 8, 2011
The Center for Cultural and Eco Tourism continues its "In Your Own Backyard" series with an accordion workshop today, Nov. 8.
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by Anna Purdy
November 2, 2011
South Louisiana's most easily identifiable instruments, the accordion first arrived just before the dawn of the twentieth century and changed the musical landscape. The accordion is an intricate instrument, with multiple reeds for each note and tuned to different keys. Before the accordion was fully adopted into the Louisiana musical repertoire, it was featured in solos and alternated with the fiddle. Once they were available in the same key as fiddles, their pairing became standard.
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by Melissa Canone KATC
October 20, 2011
Louisiana roots music impresario extraordinaire Todd Mouton has reloaded.
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by Walter Pierce
September 19, 2011
Trying to improve our economy has been like pushing a huge boulder uphill. There's a lot of huffing and puffing but not much progress.
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by Daily World
September 16, 2011
This Saturday representatives from different tribes in Louisiana will be at the Vermilionville Living History & Folklife Park for its Native American Culture Day. There will be cooking demonstrations and a reconstruction of a bousillage oven. Ancient weaponry will be shown. Native American music will be played while different tribes show their traditional dances. Many of these activities will be hands-on for kids.
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by Anna Purdy
September 13, 2011
It seems half of Acadiana hits the water on the weekends.
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by Anna Purdy
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