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This town dates from 1779, when a group of 300 immigrants from the Spanish province of Málaga came up Bayou Teche and settled here. It was incorporated in 1813, and its history changed drastically after the arrival of the steamboat Plowboy in 1836. New Iberia then became the terminal for steamboats traveling up the bayou from New Orleans, and it promptly developed the rambunctious character of a frontier town. In 1839, however, yellow fever traveled up the bayou with the steamboats and killed more than a quarter of the population. Many residents were saved, though, through the heroic nursing of a black woman called Tante Félicité, who had come here from Santo Domingo; she went tirelessly from family to family, carrying food and medicine. (She had had the fever many years before and was immune.)
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Fairfield Inn & Suites Lafayette
2225 NW Evangeline Thruway
Lafayette, LA 70501 Map Distance: 12.1 mi. (from destination center) Hotel Class: 
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Hampton Inn & Suites Lafayette, LA
1910 South College Road
Lafayette, LA 70508 Map Distance: 17.1 mi. (from destination center) Hotel Class: 
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Courtyard Lafayette Airport
214 East Kaliste Saloom Road
Lafayette, LA 70508 Map Distance: 17.4 mi. (from destination center) Hotel Class:
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AttractionsTabasco Sauce Factory
La. 329
Avery Island, Louisiana Distance: 0.0 mi. (from destination center) Description: Avery Island, south of New Iberia, sits atop a gigantic salt dome and the oldest salt-rock mine... Read More
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Acadian Village
200 Greenleaf Dr
Lafayette, Louisiana Distance: 20.4 mi. (from destination center) Description: Just south of La. 342, you'll find a reconstructed (actually, reassembled) Cajun bayou... Read More
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Jungle Gardens
La. 329
Avery Island, Louisiana Distance: 0.0 mi. (from destination center) Description: Across the street from the Tabasco factory (but not affiliated with it), these gardens cover... Read More
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