What’s in a name? It’s “Redlich”...“not Redich”

A misspelled “Redich” Road sign stands at the intersection of the north-south Evangeline Highway about six miles south of Basile and is the only thing that denotes that the area was once called “Redlich,” with the letter “L”. The road runs east through the area commonly referred to since the mid-1930s as Tepetate. The Redlich name was used to identify this neighborhood in northwest Acadia parish…