New Iberia, Louisiana
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New Iberia is the largest city in and the parish seat of Iberia Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The city of New Iberia is located approximately 21 miles southeast of Lafayette, and forms part o
Downtown New Iberia
Flooding in New Iberia due to Hurricane Ike, September 2008
Shadows-on-the-Teche historic house in New Iberia in 2007
Francisco Bouligny
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Brigadier General Don Francisco Domingo Joseph Bouligny y Paret was a Spanish Army officer and colonial administrator who served as an acting governor of Louisiana in 1799. As a francophone in Spanish
New Iberia, Louisiana
…Lafayette. New Iberia dates its founding to the spring of 1779, when a group of some 500 colonists (Malagueños) from Spain, led by Lieutenant Colonel Don Francisco Bouligny, came up Bayou Teche and settled around what became known as Spanish Lake. The Spanish settlers called the town "Nueva Iberia" in honor of the Iberian…
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Monument honoring Francisco Bouligny and the first Malagueño settlers of New Iberia, Louisiana.