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Host: Kyle Crosby
Camera: Michael Malley
Coordinator: Samantha Rohr
We are now in Paincourtville along Bayou Lafourche and this is believed to be where the largest contingent of Acadians would settle after getting forcibly removed from their homeland. They would arrive in New Orleans, with the last ship docking in 1785. The vast majority of this group would settle below what is now Donaldsonville near a place called Valenzuela that was occupied by mostly Islanos people from the Canary Islands.
The legend of Paincourtville goes something like this: a long time ago, there was a lonely traveler who ...