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The post arrives from Saint-Marc on Monday morning, and continues immediately to Gonaives with correspondence from Port-au-Prince and the rest of the South. She returns from Gonaives on Thursday with letters from the North.
The municipal council administers itself with the assistance of the State.
Patronal feast on November 30, at Saint-Andre. In 1892, the State granted 800 gourdes for the construction of a presbytery.
The garrison of this commune is made up of a gendarmerie company, an administrative police company, an artillery company from the Saint-Marc depot, the national guard on foot and on horseback, and the rural police.
An incident arose in 1884 when it came to determining the limits of the commune of Grande-Saline created by the law of September 30, 1881, jointly with those of Saint-Marc. Once the surveyor's work was completed, it was noticed that the unit of several dwellings had been attacked, and that they were therefore separated into two portions. Regrettable disputes were to be feared for the future; also, to obviate this, the delimitation commission, composed of members of the two interested communes and chaired by General J.B. Luvieux, commander of the district of Saint-Marc, assisted finally by the surveyor, met and decided that a large public road starting from the Artibonite river and heading south towards the Lomini habitation, would serve as a common boundary for the two communes of Saint-Marc and Ia Grande-Saline.
History.— In January 1795, an English frigate cannonaded the Grande-Saline fort and extinguished the fire. The English landed and built entrenchments not far from the shore, at a place called La Guildive. They removed a lot of salt from it. Toussaint-Louverture, after having chased them from the Petite-riviere de l'Arlibonite, launched all his cavalry on the Grande-Saline, and charged the English with so much impetuosity that he forced them to re-embark, despite the heavy fire of their artillery.
President Geffrard visited Grande-Saline on October 14, 1862, leaving Gonaives, during a tour he undertook in Artibonit, the North and the North-West.
— On December 1, 1888, during the Northern Insurrection against the authority of the head of the executive power, General Legitime, La-Grande-Saline fired 21 cannon shots at the Haitian ship the Mancel. The Toussaint-Louverture responded with 5 cannonballs which fired at the Northerners. — January 24, 1880, General O. Piquant. Minister of the Interior, carried out a landing at Grande-Saline, which he captured after a short resistance. General Colas, commander of the commune, was taken prisoner and taken to the capital, where he was imprisoned and degraded. The surrounding populations came in crowds to submit to the general at the beginning of May, Grande-Sline was however abandoned by the Army of the West, after the defeat of General Piquant at Dessalines. There were 1,200 men commanded by Dardignac, who were transported to Archaie.