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Lane Broussard was surprised to discover that a letter she wrote in fourth grade at Mt. Carmel Elementary in 1993 had been buried in a time capsule in Magdalen Square.
On Thursday, to celebrate Abbeville’s 175th birthday, Mayor Roslyn White and city officials opened the 30-year-old white plastic time capsule buried in the gazebo floor.
Mayor White gradually removed all the items from the time capsule and showed them to the crowd.
One of the items the Mayor removed was a laminated letter written by a fourth-grade student from Mt. Carmel.

Dozens gathered Thursday morning in Magdalen Square to celebrate Abbeville’s 175th birthday.
Originally founded by Père Antoine Désiré Mégret, a special legislative charter signed on March 13, 1850, officially incorporated the city.

BATON ROUGE, La. - Keep Louisiana Beautiful (KLB)’s Get Down & Clean Up program, in collaboration with the State Library of Louisiana and the Louisiana Public Library System, makes litter clean-up supplies readily available at public libraries across the state.
In collaboration with Keep Abbeville Beautiful, the program is available at the Abbeville Branch of the Vermilion Parish Library.
The program has grown to 145 participating libraries in 44 parishes, and over 1,100 litter kits have been checked out by library patrons to care for their local communities.