Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Acadia Parish, Louisiana . Acadia Parish was created on 1887, from St. Landry Parish and the parish was named in honor of the Acadians , descendants of the 17th-century French colonists who settled in Acadia. The Parish seat is Crowley. The first settlement of what is now Acadia Parish was made by the exiled Acadians who were induce...