Cajun Country History
In
1755 the British with the help of New England soldiers expelled the
French-Roman Catholics Acadians from Nova Scotia, Canada,
dumping them along the Eastern Seaboard and along the Gulf of Mexico,
particularly in Louisiana. 
Prior
to the arrival of the Acadians, or Cajuns, in 1765, the Bayou Teche
area had already begun to be settled by the French. Many of these settlers
were descendants of the first wave of French settlers in Louisiana. They
are sometimes called "Creoles," meaning native, since they were
born in colonial Louisiana.
This
small rustic cabin is furnished with original "Louisiana Cypress"
furniture.
There is a small garden at the cabin with a variety of culinary and medicinal
herbs and plants that were traditionally grown in this area. Along the
banks of the Bayou Teche, this Acadian farmstead is an example
of how a single family home-place would have appeared in the early 19th
century. When the US government bought the Louisiana territory
from the French in 1803, Cajun culture began to influenced and then dominated
by Anglo settlers, culture, and laws.