Acadia National Park
@JWMILLER (3275)
Westmoreland, Tennessee
March 13, 2019 7:07pm CST
Acadia National park in Maine is a wonderful place to visit. It is just about wholly beautiful with ocean scenes with a rugged coastline, a mountain, and varied, beautiful countryside with hills valleys, and meadows. It was from Acadia that some people were removed to Louisiana in the 1770's, where they were called 'Cajuns.',
My photo Historical facts from Wikipedia
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
14 Mar 19
Acadia is now called New Brunswick, the place where the Acadians who were transported to New Orleans came from not in Maine. The park however is lovely and we have actually visited both places.
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@JWMILLER (3275)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
16 Mar 19
The park in my photo is Acadia National Park in Maine, is it not?
@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
16 Mar 19
@JWMILLER Acadia national park is indeed in Maine but the Acadians are not
@SophiaMorros (5044)
• Belews Creek, North Carolina
14 Mar 19
I've walked around that lake and climbed the Bubbles at the end of the lake. It's a beautiful place to visit.
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@RasmaSandra (98106)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Mar 19
Sounds like a lovely place. I know it was difficult for those people to have to leave there.
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@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
14 Mar 19
I live in New Brunswick....home to many Acadians. Their story is heartbreaking. All they wanted was to live a peaceful life on their farms....they were sorely mistreated.
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@JWMILLER (3275)
• Westmoreland, Tennessee
16 Mar 19
A famous poem, Evangeline, by Longfellow, tells of two people in love who were separated and were kept apart for decades, until they were very old. Terrible fate.
@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
16 Mar 19
@JWMILLER the story of the Acadians is tragic. Families were ripped apart. They were considered a "threat" when all they wanted to do was live their lives on the farms that they had wrestled from the salt marshes of "Acadia"
The work these pioneers did in the 1600's is still evident to this day.
The "aboiteau" are a prime example....the engendering these farmers managed without modern equipment is a marvel.
@Deepizzaguy (122305)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
14 Mar 19
I did not that fact of the people from Maine were forced to leave to come to Louisiana.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
14 Mar 19
I don't think I'll ever get to Maine.
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@LowRiderX (22901)
• Serbia
16 Mar 19
It's beautiful. I'm just sorry that I will never see some places
