Kenneth A. Dupuy's definitive early history of Abbeville, Louisiana. This is a collection
of Dupuy's serial articles written for the Abbeville Meridional and now available as a
beautiful hard-bound and completely indexed 360-page book.
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.
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,
categorized and listed chronologically under alphabetized topics.
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.
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.
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.
Historical documents and maps concerning the history of Vermilion Parish.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, showing lot owners.
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.
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.
