New Iberia
N 30° 00.161 W 091° 48.817
15R E 614425 N 3319674
Located in front of the New Iberia Civic Center on Historic East Main St. This marker is bilingual.
Waymark Code: WM8HBJ
Location: Louisiana, United States
Date Posted: 04/04/2010
Views: 5
Placed by Louisiana Department of Commerce and Industry 1958.
Marker text states
Early in 1779 Governor 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 named their settlement New Iberia, for their own Iberian Peninsula.
Marker Name: New Iberia
Marker Type: Roadside
What does marker relate to?: City/Parish/State
Year Erected or Date Dedicated: 01/01/1958
Parish: Iberia
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