WOODLAWN   : 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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WOODLAWN 

At the turn of the century the bayou crossing at Woodlawn, midway 
between Milton and Abbeville, stood out in sharp contrast to the 
treeless prairie around it. This was a piece of grass-carpeted, rolling 
hills, shaded with moss-draped Eve oak trees, under which grazing 
animals kept the lawn clipped. 

One of the large landowners of the area was Lucien Sarazin Broussard, 
whose plantation spanned the Lafayette-Vermilion parish line on the 
Vermilion River.