RICEVILLE  : 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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RICEVILLE 

Riceville is located south of Bayou Queue de Tortue on Hwy. 91. On Oct. 
5, 1895, some 80 lots of ground were sold at public auction to 
establish the town around the bridge that had been built across the 
bayou in 1899. 

The bridge was first called the Gueydan Bridge, for Jean-Pierre 
Gueydan. It was later called the Riceville Bridge. 

On May 28, 1897, an irrigation plant was completed at Riceville and 
began pumping water from Bayou Queue de Tortue to farmers in the 
Gueydan and Wright areas. 

After the railroad track was built from Midland to Gueydan, the train 
went through Riceville daily, dropping the mail bag in front of a store 
and post office first owned and operated by Jerry Leach. In a later 
incarnation, the store became a night club known as The Town and 
Country Club of Riceville.