Gueydan, Louisiana

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Weather in:
Gueydan

Fair
Temperature: 53.7 °F

Humidity: 88 %
Wind Speed: 1 mph SSW
Pressure: 29.94 "

Dew Point: 50 °F
Gusts: 19 mph W
Rain Today: 0.00 "

• Louisiana rice farmers look to 2009
  

  U.S. rice industry leaders met recently for the USA Rice Federation Outlook Conference with one eye on the economy and the other peering at the prospects for the 2009 crop.

• Eight area nursing homes ranked low
  

  Eight of Lafayette Parish's 10 nursing homes received the federal government's lowest rating in a new five-star system unveiled Thursday.

• Theriot has 1,000 pairs of shoes to give away
  

  Hilary Theriot has more shoes than anyone in Vermilion Parish. She has at least 1,000 pair of shoes, and she is giving them away to the needy.

• Abbeville football coach steps down
  

  For the second year in a row, there are two head football coaching positions available in Vermilion Parish.

• Couvillon's career: Beautician in Mulvey
  

  This crazy economy has taken its toll on my bank account, so Ia ve hit the roads of Vermilion Parish to find out what other sources of income are out there.

• Nicholas Paul Trahan and Amy Elizabeth LeMaire
  

  Mr. and Mrs. Nathan LeMaire of Gueydan announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Amy Elizabeth LeMaire to Nicholas Paul Trahan, son of Glenn & Sharon Trahan of Scott.

• Holiday season means donation time
  

  This season, more and more people are having trouble finding the means to afford all the things that one associates with the holidays.

• Cliff L. Hargrave Graduates From Louisiana Tech.- Ruston
  

  Louisiana Tech's fall quarter commencement exercises were held Nov. 19, with diplomas awarded to 321 graduates.

• Parish residents fear going to Jeff Davis Parish
  

  Some Gueydan residents and other Vermilion Parish residents plan to stay away from Jefferson Davis Parish altogether until someone is arrested for killing seven women in Jefferson Davis Parish.

• Restricted use chemicals class at LSUAg Center
  

  Two meetings have been scheduled for users of restricted use chemicals to renew their pesticide applicator cards, according to Stuart Gauthier, LSU AgCenter Extension County Agent.A The first meeting will be ...

• Halloween Events- Vermilion Parish
  

  Scare in the Square. 5-7 p.m. Oct. 30. From 6-8 p.m., costumed children ages 0-12 will be invited to "Trick-or-Treat" with participating businesses along Magdalen Square.

• Around Acadiana
  

  Philip Gould, a leading photographic chronicler of Louisiana culture and architecture, will teach an intermediate photography workshop titled, The Human Terrain.

• Vermilion aerial mosquito spraying set for Sept. 23
  

  Vermilion Parish mosquito control will be conducting aerial spraying Sept. 23 over Gueydan, Kaplan, Abbeville, Erath, Delcambre and Maurice.

• Water in homes in Vermilion, Cameron parishes
  

  LAFAYETTE -- Vermilion Parish emergency officials are warning residents to stay out of areas south of La.

• Tornado Warning: Jeff Davis, Vermilion, Acadia
  

  TORNADO WARNING: Jeff Davis, Vermilion, Acadia September 13, 2008 TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN ACADIA PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... EASTERN CAMERON PARISH IN SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA... THIS INCLUDES ...

• Residents Urged NOT to Return to Vermilion Parish
  

  Vermilion Parish Sheriff Mike Couvillion is urging residents not to return to the area until water recedes enough for roads to become passable.

• Rescuers ready in Vermilion
  

  Vermilion Parish emergency officials stood by with their eyes close on the rising Vermilion River in anticipation of what else was to come of the ominous progression of Hurricane Ike on Friday evening.

• Sandbags Available Monday
  

  Police Station Sewer Plant Youngsville Sand Bags Pre-Bagged Sand for Handicap/Elderly Duson: providing sandbags for their residents in city limits, 10 per household 1st street at the Maintance Bldg.

• Storm Update: Vermilion establishes pickup points
  

  The Vermilion Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness has established pickup points for residents without special needs.

City Description

Gueydan is a town in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,598 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Abbeville Micropolitan Statistical Area. In the early 1860s, Jean Pierre Gueydan, the founder of the town, lived in Abbeville, Louisiana, about 30 miles east of present day Gueydan. He often came to the future town site to hunt deer, ducks, geese, pheasant, cache-cache (Jack Snipe), papabottes, and other game. The area was in reality a hunter's paradise. Game and fish were boundless. Forty thousand acres (160 km²) of land described by surveyors as "sea marsh, unfit for cultivation" was purchased by Jean Pierre and Francois Gueydan in 1884 for twelve and one-half cents per acre. By 1896 a small portion of their purchase became known as the "Gueydan Pasture". It was later chartered as a village when the population reached 250. Jean Pierre was the official founder of Gueydan as he had purchased his brother's landholdings. In 1902, the settlement became the town of Gueydan. Realizing the importance of a railroad to the rice farmers , Mr. Gueydan donated a section of land and extensive right-of-way to induce the Southern Pacific Railroad to build a branch line

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• Vermilion Parish

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