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Opelousas, Louisiana

Everything Opelousas is known for

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Music in Opelousas

Songs About Opelousas

Concrete And Barbed Wire
Bella White
54%
"down in Opelousas, the dogs are at the gates"
Cane River Blues
Adam Carroll
52%
"I gotta get some goods to Opelousas, I need you behind the wheel"
Between Eunice and Opelousas (Live)
High Performance
5%
"Between Eunice and Opelousas"
4%
"And I put that on everything like Tony Chachere"
Home I’ll Never Be
The Low Anthem
3%
"Road to Opelousas"

Rivers & Roads in Song near Opelousas

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Opelousas.

Everything Near Opelousas

3 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

  • Opelousas, LA · Local history

    Opelousas sits on a subtle rise, a gentle swell of land that belies its relative height. At 66 feet above sea level, it's high ground compared to much of southern Louisiana, a place where the flat coastal plain begins…

  • Venus House · 0.4 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Pull over here for a second, I want to tell you about the Venus House. It gives us a rare window into the lives of free Creole women of color in Louisiana. Marie François Venus, a free woman of color, owned this house…

  • Chretien Point Plantation · 10.1 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Pull over here for a minute, because this place is packed with history! Chretien Point Plantation, right near Sunset, Louisiana, witnessed a Civil War battle on its grounds. Built before the Civil War, this twelve-room…

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