The Gateway to South Louisiana
The Hamilton Training School operated on McKinley Street on the campus of SLI, the Southwestern Louisiana Institute in Lafayette, from 1939-1977. The students attending lived in the area and were children of SLI/USL staff and faculty. The school provided a setting for student teachers to learn their craft. Over the years, its name changed to […]
Miles Perret Cancer Services was featured on the Discover Lafayette Podcast in 2019 to discuss its important mission in helping fund the needs of local families going through the physical, emotional, and financial effects of a family member getting a diagnosis of cancer. You can listen to the interview here. The organization was founded in […]
The Domingue Center is currently slated to be closed by LCG and citizens are clamoring to keep it open to serve the recreational needs of North Lafayette. This snippet of the past about the origins of the Center was obtained from Lafayette Memories on Facebook through a post by Patti Credeur. We thank her for […]
In 1901, Ashby Woodson was the first teacher of manual training at the newly opened Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute, now known as UL Lafayette. Manual training was to eventually become known as the College of Engineering. Under a 1920 legislative act, Dr. Edwin L. Stephens, president of the university, organized departments that would eventually develop […]
The Jefferson Theater opened on January 15, 1905 as it showcased its first production, a burlesque comedy called ‘Hoity-Toity’. Originally established as a venue for live acts and motion pictures, a new Jefferson Theater would later be built next door and the original building would become the Azalea Theater. Downtown Lafayette was able to sustain […]