Features of the Website

• History of Vermilion Parish, La., Volume 1 (1983) 
  
  A completely indexed 485-page collection of family stories, historical topics, photographs, and other information related to the history of the parish.  This book is still available for ordering.

• History of Vermilion Parish, La., Volume 2 (2003) 
  
  The 620-page continuation of the work begun in Volume 1, with more family stories, historical essays, tribute pages, old photographs, and the addition of thousands of historically interesting excerpts from the Abbeville Meridional and other newspapers through the year 1900.

• Abbeville Model Village Project 
  
  Lighted miniature models of some of the beautiful historic buildings of downtown Abbeville, Louisiana.  The St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church, the beautiful and distinctive Bank of Abbeville, the magnificent Palms Hospital, the first Abbeville High School, and the Vermilion Parish Courthouse may be ordered by printing out the order form.

• Slide Presentations of the history of Abbeville 
  
  Topics from the history of Abbeville presented in the form of PowerPoint® slide shows.  These presentations were first made to meetings of the Vermilion Historical Society with verbal narrative by Gary Theall and Ken Dupuy..

• Topics in History 
  
  Selected topics from the history of Vermilion Parish, from various sources, concerning important people and events, including articles by Kenneth A. Dupuy, Gary E. Theall, and others, on the founding of Abbeville, the coming of the railroad, historical vignettes, and a slideshow of Abbeville buildings seen from the rooftop of the old Audrey Hotel.

• Vermilion Parish Biographies 
  
  A growing collection of biographies of some of the individuals who played an important part in the history of the parish.

• Historical Images 
  
  Historical photographs and other images relating to the history of Vermilion Parish.

• Documents and Maps 
  
  Historical documents and maps concerning the history of Vermilion Parish.  Included here are Mégret's original map of the town of "Abbville," and François Feray's 1868 map of Abbeville.

• Historical Collections 
  
  Private collections of documents and photographs concerning the history of Vermilion Parish, including the Clarence J. Edwards Collection, the Wilmer Geoffroy Collection, and others soon to come.

• Sanborn Maps 
  
  Fire insurance drawings of streets and outlines of buildings for several of the towns in Vermilion Parish between 1895 and 1927, presented as downloadable PDF files.

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This page was last updated on 05/27/2008.