3rd grade field trip

​Third graders went on a field trip to the Conrad Rice Mill and the Acadian Village.
 
The Conrad Rice Mill is the oldest rice mill in America. It is also one of the leading tourist attractions in this area of the Bayou Teche. In 1981, the Mill was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
 
Seven of the eleven buildings at the Acadian Village are authentic homes of the 19th century donated by the families whose ancestors once occupied them. All homes show the passing of time and are remarkable examples of the ingenuity of the early Acadian homebuilders, complete with wooden pegs, mud walls, hand-hewn cypress timbers, and high-peaked roofs.  Each was moved piece by piece and carefully restored.