4 Aug 2018

Java Square Café

2022-04-28T18:12:03-05:00

Are you in need of a space that will inspire creativity and positive thinking? Why not have your next meeting at a coffee house that serves fresh, locally roasted coffee? Java Square Café has a private meeting room located on the balcony of the old Parish & Trust Bank building. The space can accommodate up to 20 guests and comes with a privacy curtain. If you need more space, the whole building can be rented after hours to accommodate your party. Your team can work comfortably with their smooth custom blended roast. The café can also cater your event and serves gourmet sandwiches, wraps, pastries, and more. Projector and TV rental is also available.

Java Square is located in downtown Opelousas, across from the courthouse, near area shops, and public artwork. For booking information, send your requests to info@javasquare.cafe and get a custom quote to fit your needs.

Java Square Meeting Room in Opelousas, Louisiana
Java Square in Opelousas, Louisiana
Java Square Café2022-04-28T18:12:03-05:00
4 Aug 2018

Stone Oak Ballroom

2024-09-26T13:22:15-05:00

Stone Oak Ballroom is a dream wedding venue for any southern belle. The venue originally served as a stunning state-of-the-art thoroughbred farm. Today, you can create your perfect wedding day, cocktail party, or reunion. The 1,700 square foot facility lies on 30 acres of land featuring a walking path, a lakeside pavilion, and a covered outdoor stage for entertainment.

The barn has been converted with all modern conveniences, air conditioning, antique buffets, a bar, and dressing room to accommodate you and your guests. The 22 ft. ceilings and imported mahogany create a unique ambiance for an indoor event. An outdoor ceremony can also be arranged on the landscaped grounds.

Stone Oaks Ballroom in Opelousas, Louisiana
Stone Oaks Ballroom in Opelousas, Louisiana
Stone Oaks Ballroom in Opelousas, Louisiana
Stone Oaks Ballroom in Opelousas, Louisiana
Stone Oaks Ballroom in Opelousas, Louisiana
Stone Oaks Ballroom in Opelousas, Louisiana
Stone Oak Ballroom2024-09-26T13:22:15-05:00
4 Aug 2018

Soileau’s Dinner Club

2022-04-28T18:33:54-05:00

Soileau’s Dinner Club can host and cater your next event. The restaurant offers a private dining room just for guests holding a private event. The space can accommodate up to from 15-50+ guests and is perfect for family functions, reunions, showers, rehearsal dinners, and more. For more details, contact  Scott or Beth Soileau.

Soileau's Dinner Club
Soileau's Dinner Club

Soileau’s Dinner Club2022-04-28T18:33:54-05:00
4 Aug 2018

St. Landry Parish Ag Arena

2023-11-29T18:24:03-06:00

Named after Opelousas’ favorite dish, yams, The Yambilee Ag Arena is a spacious venue for outdoor events. The 16,728 square foot, covered arena is perfect for trail rides, rodeos, or 4-H events. The Yambilee also has a large indoor entertainment facility for live music, reunions, and conferences.

St. Landry Parish Ag Arena2023-11-29T18:24:03-06:00
24 Jul 2018

Zydeco Music Exhibit

2020-01-28T10:30:54-06:00

This is the perfect attraction for zydeco music fans. The Zydeco Music Exhibit is in Opelousas, Louisiana the birthplace of Grammy award-winning, zydeco legends such as Terrance Simien and Clifton Chenier. Interpretive panels display a musical timeline beginning with early la-la and the musicians who would later influence zydeco music. This presentation includes seven panels total, that display the legends of zydeco, the history, and information on how Creole sounds developed from the colonial period to the present in South Louisiana.

You can find the Zydeco Music Exhibit at Le Vieux Village Heritage Park, an attraction featuring Opelousas’ most historic places. The exhibit is housed in the Opelousas Visitor Center, also known as the Jarrell House. The center also houses the Jim Bowie Display and a gift store featuring local artwork, cookbooks, and souvenirs.

Ici on parle français. French is spoken here.

Le Vieux Village Heritage Park in Opelousas, Louisiana
The Whiteville Schoolhouse at Le Vieux Village Heritage Park in Opelousas, Louisiana
Le Vieux Village in Opelousas, Louisiana
Zydeco Music Exhibit2020-01-28T10:30:54-06:00
23 Jul 2018

St. Landry Catholic Church & Cemetery

2022-04-01T16:46:12-05:00

Visit the second oldest church parish in the Lafayette Catholic Diocese, St. Landry Catholic Church of Opelousas. The earliest documented ritual performed was a baptism on May 16, 1756. However, the parish church was officially founded in 1770 as The Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Post of Opelousas by French Capuchin friars. Since the 1700s, more ornate churches have been built, and the current edifice, designed and completed by noted Opelousas architect, Tilghman George Chachere, Sr. in 1909, is a Gothic form of structure with Romanesque motifs. Also, view stained-glass windows made in France by German artisans.

Another reason to visit St. Landry Catholic Church is the captivating image of Lieutenant Father Joseph Verbis Lafleur fighting to save the lives of American POWs during WWII. The Father Lafleur Monument can be found on the grounds of the church, near the entrance.

“Sculpted by renowned Italian artist, Franco Alessandrini, Lieutenant Father Lafleur’s last heroic crowning moment of life is depicted in white Carrara marble. Beautifully carved is Father Lafleur struggling to push men to possible freedom from the hull of the torpedoed and sinking ‘hell ship’, the Shinyo Maru while water pours down over them.”

You can learn more about Father Lafleur on a tour of the church and cemetery with historian James Douget. Guided tours are available for groups and individuals by appointment.

During the second and third weekends of October, see costumed re-enactors portray historic Opelousas figures in the cemetery during the St. Landry Catholic Church Cemetery Tours & Historic Reenactments. This historic cemetery contains graves that date back to the 1790s. Veterans from various wars are buried here, along with old prominent families of the Opelousas area. Louisiana Governor Jacques Dupré and his wife are buried here, as well as one of Napoléon Bonaparte’s soldiers, Gen. Garrigues de Flaugeac. This event welcomes bus groups and also offers handicap-accessible tours! Additionally, tours of the St. Landry Catholic Church Cemetery can be arranged throughout the year by appointment.

St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana
St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana
St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana
St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana
St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana
St. Landry Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana
St. Landry Catholic Church & Cemetery2022-04-01T16:46:12-05:00
23 Jul 2018

Opelousas Museum

2024-06-24T15:44:43-05:00

The Opelousas Museum is a great destination for those interested in the Civil War, zydeco music, Native American history, or any traveler looking for things to do in Opelousas. The museum explores the history and culture of the Opelousas area from prehistoric times to the present. The Main Exhibit Room tells the story of the Free People of Color as well as Native Americans. The other side of the exhibit space focuses on zydeco, a popular music genre fostered right here in Opelousas. Other exhibits include the Civil War Room, the Louisiana Video Collection Library, the Rodney Milburn Exhibit, and the Southwest Louisiana Zydeco Music Festival Archives.

Group tours are available by appointment. Sign up to their newsletter or check out their Facebook page for new programming.

Opelousas Museum & Interpretive Center in Opelousas, Louisiana
Opelousas Museum & Interpretive Center in Opelousas, Louisiana
Opelousas Museum & Interpretive Center in Opelousas, Louisiana
Opelousas Museum & Interpretive Center in Opelousas, Louisiana
Opelousas Museum2024-06-24T15:44:43-05:00
23 Jul 2018

Mural History

2024-06-24T15:50:26-05:00

Opelousas, Louisiana has become a city of murals! To date, there are five murals located in the downtown area and even more public art projects, including Fiddle Mania. On the west side of the Savoy building, you’ll find a fabulous work of art painted by Tony Wimberly of Church Point, Mural History. The mural portrays a chapter in the life of Jim Bowie, a hero of the Battle of the Alamo and resident of Opelousas in the early 1800s. The Savoy building is located at 161 E. Landry Street.

Learn more about the history of Opelousas at Le Vieux Village Heritage Park and the Opelousas Museum.

Located at the parking lot on West Landry Street between Main Street and Court Street.

    Mural History2024-06-24T15:50:26-05:00
    23 Jul 2018

    Louisiana Orphan Train Museum

    2022-02-23T10:33:22-06:00

    The Louisiana Orphan Train Museum is a “must-see” attraction for travelers searching for things to do in and around Opelousas, Louisiana. The Louisiana Orphan Train Society, Inc. domiciled in Le Vieux Village Heritage Park is dedicated to collecting and preserving those items that tell the history of the orphan train riders. The term “orphan train” or “orphan train riders” refers to the Orphan Train Movement, a welfare program that was in place between 1853 and 1930. During this time, over 200,000 orphaned children were transported to foster homes typically in rural areas in the Midwest.

    Between 1873 and 1929, over 2,000 “Orphan Train Riders” came to Louisiana from the New York Foundling Hospital. Because of an increase in the number of occupants, the Sisters of Charity contacted Catholic priests asking for assistance. In the spring of April and May in 1907 three trains arrived in Opelousas with children from the Foundling Home wearing identification numbers that would match them to their new Catholic foster families.

    The museum has a large collection of original documents, clothing, and images on display and many of the museum’s volunteers are descendants of orphan train riders. There you can also see statues on the grounds and the Orphan Train mural, depicting the arrival of the riders.

    The museum is the only one of its kind in Louisiana and second in the nation to the Orphan Train Museum in Concordia, KS.

    Ici on parle français. French is spoken here.

    LA Orphan Train Society Annual Gathering in Opelousas, Louisiana at the LA Orphan Train Museum
    LA Orphan Train Museum in Opelousas, Louisiana
    LA Orphan Train Society Annual Gathering in Opelousas, Louisiana at the LA Orphan Train Museum
    LA Orphan Train Society Annual Gathering in Opelousas, Louisiana at the LA Orphan Train Museum
    LA Orphan Train Society Annual Gathering in Opelousas, Louisiana at the LA Orphan Train Museum
    LA Orphan Train Museum in Opelousas, Louisiana
    Louisiana Orphan Train Museum2022-02-23T10:33:22-06:00
    23 Jul 2018

    Louisiana Orphan Train Mural

    2021-03-12T09:52:02-06:00

    Artist Robert Dafford depicts one of the most important stories in American history in this mural, the arrival of the orphan train riders. The mural is located in the Louisiana Orphan Train Musuem in Opelousas, just one of many locations in America where orphan children arrived from New York in between 1853 and 1930.

    The Orphan Train Mural is an impressive work of art measuring 7′ x 14′ and hangs in the main area of the museum. Robert is a talented muralist from Lafayette, Louisiana and is also the artists who painted the Gateway to the Great Southwest Prairie mural in Eunice, Louisiana.

    Louisiana Orphan Train Mural2021-03-12T09:52:02-06:00

    St. Landry Parish Visitor Center
    Monday-Saturday 9am-5pm

    337.948.8004
    978 Kennerson Road (I-49 exit 23)
    P.O. Box 1415 • Opelousas, LA 70570

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