The Lafayette Advertiser (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??
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1,693 issues from 1869 to 1914, published in Lafayette, Louisiana, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Lafayette Advertiser was founded in 1865. At that time, the newspaper’s title referred to Lafayette Parish, not the city of Lafayette, which was called Vermilionville until 1884. Located 15 miles west of the Atchafalaya Swamp and 35 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico, Lafayette is part of Acadiana, a region settled in the 18th century by French colonists driven out of Nova Scotia during the French and Indian War. In the 19th century, most immigrants to the region came directly from France or other parts of the United States. The population of Lafayette was about 3,000 in the 1890s. By 1910, this had more than doubled, due in part to the opening in 1900 of the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette). Several sugar factories appeared around the turn of the century, contributing further to the town’s growth. Natural gas was discovered at nearby Breaux Bridge in 1899, followed by oil at Anse La Butte in 1902.
William B. Bailey (1839-1896), a Lafayette native who had trained as a printer with his brother Abijah Bailey at the bilingual Echo of Lafayette, became a partner at the Advertiser on his return from the Civil War. He was its sole editor and proprietor from 1868 until 1893, when he accepted a political appointment. The paper was then edited briefly by Alfred C. Ordway before coming under the management of its associate editor, Henri A. Vander Cruyssen (ca. 1859-1903). Born in Ghent, Belgium, Vander Cruyssen trained and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Lafayette, Louisiana, United States
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress