ADT-Monitored Home Security Service in Eunice, LA

Eunice is a city in Acadia and St. Landry parishes in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The 2010 census placed the population at 10,398, a halt of 1,101, or 9.5 percent, from the 2000 tabulation of 11,499.

The St. Landry Parish allocation of Eunice is portion of the Opelousas–Eunice Micropolitan Statistical Area, while the Acadia Parish allocation is part of the Crowley Micropolitan Statistical Area.

One-time lawman and pioneer estate developer C.C. Duson is endorsed with founding Eunice, which was named for his second wife, Eunice Pharr Duson. He and his brother, W.W. Duson, had already founded Crowley, Louisiana in 1887, and now he looked to the north of the parish for well ahead development. Duson bought 160 acres (0.65 km) of land from Willie Humble of Prairie Faquetaïque and mapped out a town site, laid out in lots 50-by-140 feet, 12 lots to the block. Next, he persuaded the Southern Pacific Railroad to extend a branch origin from Crowley to his other town. Then he began what he and his brother had moot how to realize as well as anyone: promote home sales. It was chartered as a village upon September 12, 1894, and incorporated as a town on June 4, 1895.