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Evangeline Oak Historic Marker
Location
of sign - Oak Drive, New
Orleans, Louisiana
Photo
taken- January 2008
Photo
courtesy of Jimmy Wayne
Text
of sign:
Evangeline Oak
Longfellow's
poem "Evangeline" immortalized the tragedy of the Acadian
exile from Nova Scotia in 1755. This oak marks the
legendary
meeting place of Emmeline Labiche and Louis Arceneaux, the
counterparts of Evangeline and Gabriel
Erected
by Department of Culture, Recreation, and Tourism 1982
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