New Acadia Project

By Harlan Kirgan on Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Identifying, preserving homesteads of Acadian pioneers
  • Warren Perrin, guest speaker for a recent meeting of the French Table of Rayne, explains The New Acadia Project, dedicated to the identification, investigation and preservation of the original home sites and final resting places of Acadians who began what is known today as Acadiana. (Photo by Lisa Soileaux/Rayne Acadian-Tribune)
    Warren Perrin, guest speaker for a recent meeting of the French Table of Rayne, explains The New Acadia Project, dedicated to the identification, investigation and preservation of the original home sites and final resting places of Acadians who began what is known today as Acadiana. (Photo by Lisa Soileaux/Rayne Acadian-Tribune)
    The New Acadia Project is an effort to identify, investigate and preserve the original homesteads and final resting places of Acadians who settled in what is today known as Acadiana. Warren Perrin, attorney from Erath, is spearheading the project and spoke recently to La Table Acadienne de Rayne (The Rayne French Table). During his PowerPoint presentation, Perrin explained that in 1765, Joseph B...

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