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| | Shadows on The Teche - David and Mary Weeks, 1818-1834 (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | David Weeks, builder of the Shadows, was just one of many Anglo-Americans who made their way to the Attakapas region, the present day parishes of St. Martin, St. Mary, Iberia, Vermilion, and Lafayette, after the 1803 Louisiana Purchase to seek their fortune making sugar. |
 | | After David's father died, they decided to move to their Attakapas properties to concentrate on the production of sugar at Grand Cote. |
 | | But in 1825 David sold the Parc Perdu plantation and moved his young family to the recently purchased tract of land on the outskirts of New Town (New Iberia now), where he built on a tract of 158 acres, the brick dwelling house now called The Shadows-on-the-Teche. |
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