20 GUIDEBOOK OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES 
Jeanerette is an old and picturesque village named for an early 
French settler, Jean Erette, who operated a small corn mill, For 
many years the principal industry of Jeanerette was 
Jeanerette. sawing cypress and other lumber brought from the 
Elevation 19 feet. swamps far to the northeast, but this activity has 
Population 2,228. 
New Orleans 115 miles. Ceased because the sources of supply have become too 
remote. There is, however, considerable farming and 
dairying, and rice and cotton are produced. Formerly there were 
many small sugar mills in the vicinity, but only a few remain; on 
about 2 miles west of the town, on the bank of Bayou Teche, is 
conspicuous from the railroad. 
From Jeanerette northwestward the railroad follows the high south 
bank of Bayou Teche through cane fields and small woodlands. 
Throughout this district fine live oaks festooned with Spanish moss 
are conspicuous, many of them surrounding stately old homes. Am 
these are the Delgado-Albania plantation, on the bank of Bayou 
Teche, now owned by the city of New Orleans, and several other 
notable old estates, such as Bayside, Westover, Loisel, and Beau Pré, 
all surrounded by fine trees. About 5 miles west of Jeanerette, on 
the north bank of the bayou, is the livestock experiment station, 
1,000 acres in extent, sustained by the cooperation of the United States 
Department of Agriculture and the State of Louisiana. 
New Iberia, one of the oldest settlements in southwestern Louisiana, 
is a commercial and sugar center at the junction of several local 
railroads. Situated on the bank of the Bayou Teche, 
New Iberia. it has water communication with many places. It 
pant wean was incorporated as a town in 1839, and it is said that 
New Orleans 127 miles. fully 80 per cent of the people are descendants of the 
Acadians. 
These people originally were French settlers in Grand Pré, Nova 
Scotia (French Acadie), where they had lived for a century and a half 
before the English conquest in 1755. Then, when they refused to 
transfer their allegiance to England, their property, so industriously 
accumulated, was confiscated and they were deported. During the 
following decade many of them sought refuge in the French colony 
of southern Louisiana, where, however, they found conditions not 
entirely congenial, for Spain had just acquired control of that terri- 
tory. But they were cordially welcomed, and many established 
themselves in the moist, fertile lands along the bayous, an environ- 
ment far more agreeable than the rugged north country to which 
they had been accustomed. The effect of this propitious climate upon 
their character was diverse: some were content with a bare subsist- 
ence; others developed into landowners and men of affairs whose 
hospitality and graciousness were famous. Many descendants of the 
old Acadians remain, together with a large percentage of persons of 
French descent from the original New Orleans colonies. The local 
