Cecilia’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Cecilia. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Cecilia sits on land that was historically inhabited by the Atakapa Tribe. The Atakapa lived in what is now Southwest Louisiana and Texas, and had a trading post at St. Martinville, before French settlers took over the land.
Cecilia was originally known by the Spanish as La Punta. It was translated by the French into La Grande Pointe, a name that was used by many people until contemporary times when it was then called Cecilia, named after the first postal clerk.
Pierre Guidry, the first settler of Cecilia, acquired three tracts of land from Mrs. Joseph Alexander Declouet in 1791. Joseph Angelle settled nearby soon after.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Start Cecilia’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cecilia’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewDowntownCeciliaLA: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Cecilia
See all 3 →Cecilia, decade by decade
2000
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Nothing in Cecilia is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Cecilia has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Stephanie Plantation House in Cecilia, 2.2 miles away.
Cecilia and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as DowntownCeciliaLA and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.