Bob Acres, Louisiana

Unincorporated community in Louisiana, U.S.

Bob Acres is a small unincorporated community in rural Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States. It was established as a train station by American actor Joseph Jefferson,[1] who owned nearby Orange Island (now Jefferson Island, Louisiana), an inland salt dome that only appeared to be an island from a distance. Jefferson named Bob Acres after the character Bob Acres in The Rivals, one of the plays in which the actor appeared.

See also

  • Joseph Jefferson House

References

  1. ^ Benjamin McArthur, The Man Who Was Rip Van Winkle: Joseph Jefferson and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 274.
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Municipalities and communities of Iberia Parish, Louisiana, United States
Parish seat: New Iberia
Cities
  • Jeanerette
  • New Iberia
Town
  • Delcambre‡
Village
  • Loreauville
CDP
  • Lydia
Unincorporated
communities
  • Avery Island
  • Bob Acres
  • Emma
  • Olivier
  • Rynella
Footnotes
‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent parish or parishes
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29°56′55″N 91°57′55″W / 29.94861°N 91.96528°W / 29.94861; -91.96528


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