MOUTON COVE : 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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MOUTON COVE 

Mouton Cove, first settled by Marin Mouton, brother of Lafayette 
pioneer Jean Mouton, was originally known as Anse de Mouton. It is 
located eight miles southwest of Abbeville, off Highways 82 and 691, 
just on the edge of the Big Wood. In the middle 1800s, there was a 
private school, grocery store, syrup mill, and dance hall at Mouton 
Cove. 

The center of Mouton Cove remains a small settlement today containing 
the Seventh Ward Public School and some commercial buildings. 

Some 4,250 acres of land were originally sold to Marin Mouton by an 
Attakapas Indian chief. According to the old record found in the 
Vermilion Parish courthouse, Bernard, a Chief of the Attakapas Nation 
on Aug. 19, 1802, appeared before Louis Charles DeBlanc, "Captain of 
Infantry, Civil and Military Commandant of the Post of Attakapas" and 
"sold, ceded, quitclaim, transport(ed) and abandon(ed) at this time and 
for always" transferring to Marin Mouton, syndic "one tract of land 
containing approximately one league front on the western part of 
Vermilion, with the ordinary depth." The sale was passed "with the 
approbation of the Government General of this Province and also 
authorized by virtue of Article thirty-one of the new regulations of 
the intent general for the price and sum of fifty dollars paid and 
counted....