Valsin Broussard, founder of what is now the City of Broussard, established his family home about 1876. This two-story, gallery-fronted, Anglo-American and French-style home housed the Broussard family for generations. It also served the industrious and thrifty community as one of the town's first polling places for parish and state elections. Broussardville's prosperity was bound to this house and the estate of Valsin Broussard, who donated his land, among other things, for the construction of this chemin public, a road from Broussardville to St. Martinville and to Royville (Youngsville), connecting Lafayette Parish to Iberia Parish.