For more information go to the Mamou Mardi Gras page. Mamou is not just a great tourist destination. It's also a great place to live. Recently, Mamou was awarded first place in the category of Community Development for Louisiana towns its size based on improvements in recreational facilities. The town has added new lighting and pressboxes to ballparks and made similar improvements to tennis and volleyball courts and to other facilities.
Major improvements are also under way to drainage and utility services.
Mamou was founded when C.C. Duson in 1907 developed the town site and began selling lots. In 1911, Mamou was incorporated. Mother cows with their calves were everywhere on the prairie. Voil , la naissance de Mamou. For more information about the origins of Mamou's name, Mardi Gras in Mamou, the history of Evangeline Parish, and a myriad of other interesting facts and opinions, visit the home page of Mamou's legendary Cajun writer and historian, Pascal Fuselier.