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Elks and Moose and Owls and Lambs all had fraternal orders in south Louisiana in 1913, but a critter that was already becoming iconic had none. That’s why some men in Abbeville decided it was time to create a social and fraternal organization recognizing the crawfish.
“The whole purpose of this order is the exploitation of the backward, but oh so sweet” crawfish, according to a report in the Abbeville Progress.

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Folks along the way were “astounded” in the fall of 1902, when the first car was delivered from the railroad stop in New Iberia to its buyer in Abbeville.
R. S. McMahon and W. E. Satterfield made what the New Iberia Enterprise described as a “novel trip, which took them an hour and fifty minutes, “allowing ten minutes for oiling in Erath.”
The newspaper said it was “the first trip ever made to that thriving town in an auto and the gentlemen are the pioneers of this wonderful method of locomotion.”