Stonewood, located in Bellevue near Opelousas was built in 1900 for Dr. Lawrence H. Daly…
Carola HartleyMarch 30, 2022
Although racing horses as a sport, and a business goes back over 200 years in…
Carola HartleyMarch 28, 2022
The DeLuxe Café, owned by the Etienne Daigle family, operated in downtown Opelousas during the…
Carola HartleyMarch 25, 2022
About three inches of snow fell overnight in Opelousas on Thursday, January 25, 1940.
Carola HartleyMarch 23, 2022
Today's photograph from the past is from the album of Ophelia Pitre Lafleur, featured in…
Carola HartleyMarch 16, 2022
The son of Jules Leopold Cahanin (1862-1953) and Philomene Marvina Richard (1866-1919), Leopold was born…
Carola HartleyMarch 14, 2022
A glimpse of Landry Street in downtown Opelousas during the 1940s shows all the activity…
Carola HartleyMarch 12, 2022
More and more it seems people are interested in history. St. Landry Now encourages the…
Carola HartleyMarch 10, 2022
Have you ever entered the St. Landry Parish Courthouse from Court Street?
Carola HartleyMarch 10, 2022
The Louisiana Yambilee Festival was a great event in Opelousas each October, beginning on October…
Carola HartleyMarch 7, 2022
Some citizens of Opelousas today are descendants of New York orphans who came to Opelousas…
Carola HartleyMarch 6, 2022
Photographs from Carola Lillie Hartley Collection CAROLA LILLIE HARTLEYContributing Writer A. Clary Grocery Store was…
Carola HartleyMarch 5, 2022
Local news this week included information regarding one of the monuments on the St. Landry…
Carola HartleyMarch 4, 2022
Continuing to focus on the women of Opelousas and St. Landry Parish during National Women’s…
Carola HartleyMarch 4, 2022
For those of us who have been around Opelousas for some time, when we talk…
Carola HartleyMarch 1, 2022
For several years Frank’s Liquor Store, now Frank’s Poboys, held a Mardi Gras Ball and…
Carola HartleyFebruary 28, 2022
Mardi Gras, that rowdy celebration, has been riding piggyback on the Catholic Church’s Lenten celebration…
Carola HartleyFebruary 28, 2022
A few months ago, a good friend gave me two antique photograph albums. Most of…
Carola HartleyFebruary 26, 2022
Several years ago, Robert “Bob” Bienvenu (1936-2022) sent me this photo and information on the…
Carola HartleyFebruary 24, 2022
The 1942 AIC six-man Football Team is pictured on school grounds in the fall of…
Carola HartleyFebruary 23, 2022
The history of education for the Opelousas area Black community goes back to the late…
Carola HartleyFebruary 22, 2022
What began as the St. Landry Training School over a century ago, became J. S.…
Carola HartleyFebruary 20, 2022
The first college for Blacks in Opelousas was St. Joseph’s Industrial College, also called St.…
Carola HartleyFebruary 18, 2022
Although the game of football came to St. Landry Parish in about 1893, the first…
Carola HartleyFebruary 12, 2022
The Magnolia Lodge #197 in Washington was chartered on February 16, 1870, with Daniel H,…
Carola HartleyFebruary 11, 2022
Ever think about some of the first things that happened in the historic town of…
Carola HartleyFebruary 10, 2022
Three friends who were born and raised in Washington, Louisiana are shown here in this…
Carola HartleyFebruary 9, 2022
As part of the United States Work Progress Administration started by President Franklin Roosevelt uring…
Carola HartleyFebruary 7, 2022
In 1906, a group of cotton planters who were tired of traveling to Opelousas to…
Carola HartleyFebruary 5, 2022
The featured photograph above shows the Petetin Store in Grand Coteau, photographed by Lester Jones…
Carola HartleyFebruary 2, 2022
A little over a year ago Tommy Lafleur loaned me two photo albums to look…
Carola HartleyJanuary 31, 2022
In 1896 Fred Sandoz opened his general merchandise store on the corner of West Landry…
Carola HartleyJanuary 28, 2022
As in other towns, newspapers were an important part of life and the economy in…
Carola HartleyJanuary 25, 2022
For centuries the chain of lakes in St. Landry Parish around the Opelousas area flowed…
Carola HartleyJanuary 22, 2022
A bit of Opelousas History: Since the first newspaper made its appearance in Opelousas, the…
Carola HartleyJanuary 19, 2022
