About Rayne, Louisiana

Rayne is a city of 7,236 people in Acadia Parish, in the farm country of Acadiana where rice and sugarcane have long been grown. The town began in the late nineteenth century as a prairie stop on the Louisiana Western Railroad. It was first called Pouppeville, but it was soon renamed for Rayne Grey, a Southern Pacific engineer who helped bring the railroad there, and its first depot was Rayne Station.

Merchants moved in, and within a few years the depot was crowded with trade. A Daily Picayune reporter who came in 1887 wrote about one big shipper who had traveled twenty-five miles from the south with a load of bullfrogs. Frogs soon became the town's best known export, and by the middle of the twentieth century Rayne was called the Frog Capital of the World.

“witnessed such bustle and confusion as is only equaled by the French Market of New Orleans on Sunday mornings.”
Daily Picayune, 1887
  • Frogs from a saloonDonat Pucheu, a newcomer from France, ran a saloon called the Rayne Drop Inn. On the side he sold wild game from the nearby prairies and waters: ducks, quail and bullfrogs, which Cajun French speakers call ouaouaron. Frogs were hard to find elsewhere in Louisiana, so he packed them in ice and sent them to New Orleans, where restaurant chefs cooked the legs in butter and garlic.
  • The Weil brothers, 1899In 1899 the Weils, another French family, joined the trade. Jacques Maurice Weil, born in Paris, ran the store of Boudreaux, Leger, and Weil on Polk Street with his brothers Edmond and Gontran, right across from Pucheu's bar. Weil became the town's leading frog dealer. He built a caged pen that held fifteen thousand frogs, sold goods made of frog leather and shipped to Chicago, Los Angeles and, by one account, Paris.
  • Two frogs in orbitThe Louisiana Frog Company started in Mermentau in 1931 and moved to Rayne in 1933. It grew into the biggest frog shipper in the world, sending out half a million frogs four years later. It also canned frog à la sauce piquante, packed frogs for school dissection and gave NASA two frogs, Pierre and Tee-Nom, that circled the earth in 1970. Its shipments ended in 1973, and three years after that the business sold off what it owned.
  • Frog Festival since 1973As foreign frogs cut into its trade, Rayne held its first Frog Festival in 1973. It grew out of the Frog Derby, where frogs race dressed as jockeys, first run at Crowley's International Rice Festival in 1946. Held on the second weekend of May, the festival has a Frog Derby Queen, frog kissing, frog jumping and plates of frog legs. Frog murals around town earned Rayne a second nickname, the City of Murals.

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Names on the Rayne map

Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.

Places and landmarks2

  • Rayne Chamber of Commerce
  • Gossen Memorial Park

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  • La 35
  • Church Point Highway
  • The Boulevard
  • North Adams Avenue
  • South Adams Avenue
  • West Branche Street
  • East Texas Avenue
  • Abbeville Highway
  • East Jefferson Davis
  • American Legion Drive
  • La 98
  • East Jeff Davis Avenue
  • Gabriel's Alley
  • Parish Road 1-15
  • Crandall Avenue
  • Gina Street
  • East Bull Street
  • Sills Drive
  • Hutchison Street
  • West Perrodin Street
  • West Lessley Street
  • West Harrop Street
  • North Marie Avenue
  • North Polk Street
  • Section Avenue
  • Nation Road
  • West Jeff Davis Avenue
  • Service Road
  • Lyman Avenue
  • East Branch Street
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  • Reynolds Avenue
  • East Edwards Street
  • West South First Street
  • East East Street
  • East Butler Street
  • East Harrop Street
  • Second Street
  • Margaret Avenue
  • South Polk Street
  • South Parkerson Street
  • South Arenas Street
  • Seventh Street
  • South Eastern Avenue
  • Southeastern Avenue
  • Sixth Street
  • Live Oak Street
  • Fourth Street
  • Third Street
  • Wiltz Street
  • South Cunningham Street
  • Malvern Avenue
  • Chappuis Avenue
  • Holt Avenue
  • Noon Street
  • Robert Street
  • Barbara Street
  • Bailey Avenue
  • East Lessley Street
  • North Arenas Street
  • North Parkerson Street
  • Locust Street
  • South Bradford Street
  • Gossen Memorial Drive
  • North Eastern Avenue
  • Kathy Drive
  • Eighth Street
  • Bella Avenue
  • West Bull Street
  • East South First Street
  • Stadium Drive
  • Clegg Street
  • Ann Drive
  • Edgewood Avenue
  • North McGown Street
  • North Chevis Street
  • Public Road
  • Edith Street
  • Electa Street
  • North Bradford Street
  • West Edwards Street
  • Oak Street
  • Carol Drive
  • East Betty Street
  • Carver Street
  • Janet Drive
  • Melanie Street
  • Laurie Street
  • Llama Road
  • Karen Drive
  • Cynthia Street
  • Marjorie Street
  • Martin Luther King Drive
  • Elizabeth Drive
  • Haley Alley
  • South Marie Street
  • Louisa Avenue
  • Curtis Drive
  • Lisa Street
  • Sunrise Street
  • Olga Street
  • John Drive
  • West Henry Street
  • West Thayer Street
  • West Betty Street
  • Azalea Drive
  • Pearl Street
  • Comeaux Street
  • Hilda Street
  • Patricia Street
  • Junot Road
  • Marshall Street
  • Windsor Place
  • Mounger Street
  • Peggy Street
  • Campania Street
  • Pine Street
  • Sunset Drive
  • Kahn Avenue
  • Pipers Cv
  • Huff Street
  • Ike Street
  • Roberts Cove Road
  • Malvern Street Extended
  • West Bernard Street
  • Northeastern Avenue
  • North Cunningham Street
  • West Butler Street
  • West Anding Street
  • Frog Festival Drive
  • East Bernard Street
  • South Chevis Street
  • Mervine Kahn Avenue
  • Leblanc Street
  • Adams Alley
  • Leblanc Avenue
  • Amelia Street
  • Gilbert Street
  • Faye Street
  • Louisa Street
  • Hebert Drive
  • Tenth Street
  • East Perrodin Street
  • Crandle Avenue
  • Anna Street
  • Irene Street
  • East Anding Street
  • East Thayer Street
  • East Louisiana Avenue
  • West Louisiana Avenue
  • Bowden Street

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