INDIAN BAYOU : Vermilion Parish Towns & Cities, Louisiana
Submitted by Kathy LaCombe-Tell
Source: Jim Bradshaw; Lafayette (LA) Daily Advertiser, 6/24/1997
Submitted August 2004

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INDIAN BAYOU 

The first written records of the Indian Bayou community on Hwy. 700 
come from land grant maps showing land homesteaded in 1833 by Benager 
Spell. In 1835, the church records appear with the organization of the 
Kimball Chapel Methodist Church there. 

The first school was apparently in the Methodist Church and began 
around 1850. About 1876, a one room building was put up on the site of 
the present school. The land on which the school is located was donated 
by George Hayes. Around 1905, a two-story wooden building was built in 
front of the one-room school. This building served until 1922 when a 
three-storey brick building was put up and Indian Bayou became an 
accredited high school. Its first class of five students graduated in 
1923. The high school building was replaced in 1948. 

The first post office was established at Indian Bayou on March 7, 1879. 
William Sheppard was postmaster. The office was discontinued in 1951, 
and the community has been served since as a rural route from Rayne.