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History · Dulac

Dulac’s post office opened in 1883

Most of Dulac was built recently: 2% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1990.

1883first post office
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How Dulac began

When was Dulac founded?

1883

The Dulac post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Live Oak (1872) and Boudreaux (1901), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 1,241143 years
Founding year: the first Dulac post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Dulac’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Dulac are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Dulac, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Dulac’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dulac’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Dulac’s post office has been open since 1883. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Live Oak
1872–1883
Dulac
1883–today
Boudreaux
1901–1915
18701950today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Boudreaux
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Dulac
CarlofHoly Family Cemetery Number 1Prevost

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story so far

Dulac, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Dulac yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Dulac is a census-designated place (CDP) in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,241 in 2020. It is part of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux metropolitan statistical area.

Its first post office opened in 1883. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,463 to 1,241 (-15%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Dulac, 1872 to 1915

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1872Post officeThe Live Oak post office opens
  3. 1883Post officeThe Live Oak post office closes
  4. 1883Post officeThe Dulac post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1901Post officeThe Boudreaux post office opens
  7. 1915Post officeThe Boudreaux post office closes
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Famous people

Famous people close to Dulac

Nobody well known was born in Dulac itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Allen J. EllenderAmerican politician · b. 1890
Walter GuionAmerican politician · b. 1849
Billy TauzinAmerican politician · b. 1943
Aaron LoupAmerican baseball player · b. 1987
John RobichauxNew Orleans jazz musician · b. 1866
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Mark DavisAmerican basketball player · b. 1973

Questions about Dulac’s history

What year was Dulac founded?

The Dulac post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.