A quieter and smaller alternative to Vermilionville, the Acadian Village is a cluster of seven authentic nineteenth-century Cajun cottages — relocated from the surrounding bayou country and restored on a wooded site south of Lafayette. Each is furnished as it would have been around 1880, with iron beds, hand-stitched quilts, and dark-stained cypress floors.
It is run by LARC, a non-profit serving adults with developmental disabilities, and admission fees support the programme. Quieter than Vermilionville, and it shows the buildings without the costumed-interpreter overlay. At Christmas the whole village is strung with lights and draws a steady stream of locals for the season.