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Acadia Parish is named after the French Colony Acadia in Canada. This is where many of the French inhabitants, now called Cajuns, lived before they were deported first to France then dropped and scattered throughout the eastern seaboard of the present day United States. They slowly migrated to what is now Louisiana.

The name Acadia comes from the Arcadia District in Greece and means refuge or idyllic place.

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