Downtown residential has been a top priority across the board. While there aren’t yet apartments available on top of the Children’s Museum overlooking Parc Sans Souci or lofts built along the newly ...

Freetown-Port Rico, a Lafayette neighborhood that once was a safe haven for freed slaves, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The long-sought designation, which came this week, ...

A 2.2-acre tract in Lafayette’s Freetown-Port Rico Historic District has been sold for $450,000. Freetown Properties LLC, which is owned by Chad Ortte, a Baton Rouge developer, bought the former ...

Residents of a Lafayette neighborhood once known as a safe haven for freed slaves and free men of color during the mid-1800s are working to add the area to the National Register of Historic Places.

Freetown in Lafayette has played a substantial role in Lafayette’s African-American history, known as a safe haven for freed slaves. “It was a space that people pick themselves up by the bootstraps, ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) – Freetown-Port Rico could be seeing major developments near downtown. This comes as the Lafayette Community Development and Planning Department plans to re-zone the area. The ...

Congratulations, Freetown. You are officially on the National Register of Historic Places. It was two years in the making, but Freetown-Port Rico is the first designated historic district in 31 years.

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- A local restaurant is closing one of its original locations near downtown Lafayette. Taco Sisters will end its operation in the Freetown Port-Rico neighborhood off Johnston ...

Freetown port, one of Sierra Leone’s vital facilities in the fight against the Ebola virus, remains in action as one of the mainstays of the economy. While there are concerns about the epidemic ...