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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...

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.

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