New Iberia
NEW IBERIA
Early in 1779 Governor Bernardo
de Galvez sent Lieutenant Colonel
Francisco Bouligny with nearly
five hundred Spanish and Canary
Island Colonists to establish a
settlement on the lower Bayou
Teche in the Attakapas Country.
These Spanish Colonists name
their settlement New Iberia, for
their own Iberian Peninsula.
Submitted by @alwaysreadtheplaque.