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Throughout 2014/2015 the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Sustainable Development Lab (SDLab) developed a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) historic district nomination for the Freetown, Port Rico, and Crapoudville neighborhoods. Our work was supported through a State grant from the Office of Cultural Development, Division of Historic Preservation, and the Freetown Commission. We accomplished a majority of the necessary fieldwork through a summer class, ANTH 491g: Research in Cultural Anthropology under the leadership of Professor Ray Brassieur and in which we undertook a detailed documentation of over 800 properties and developed an official standing structures survey. The historical narrative for the proposal was developed from the Freetown History Project study previously undertaken by Dr. Michael Martin, Director, Center for Louisiana Studies, Dr. C. Ray Brassieur, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Dr. Lionel Lyons, Professor of Geography, Southern University...