Vieux Bourg D'Aquin is a district of Aquin, Sud, Haiti.
Vieux-Bourg-d'Aquin
Vieux Bourg D'Aquin, an ancient Indian city, was born in the 15th century. Upon on the arrival of the French, the city was moved 6 km south to form the town of Aquin. This southern metropolis was very prosperous with the production of coffee, cotton, cocoa, banana fig and seafood.
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Originally a military post located 1 1/2 leagues from Aquin, this area had its own rural section of the Plaine d'Aquin, wihtin the commune and arrondissement of Aquin, between this town and Fonds-des-Nègres. Straddling the crossroads where the main road of Anse-à-Veau, the only vehicular road, joins, this hamlet can be prosperous only as long as the beautiful grounds which surround it will give products.
The village was founded by buccaneers in 1660, on the left side of the Aquin River.
• In 1835, the inhabitants of Aquin addressed to the President of Haiti a request to demand the prohibition of speculators in foodstuffs to the inhabitants of the Old Town, under the pretext that this faculty undermined the development of the prosperity of the City of Aquin. The government, extending its protection to all citizens, and not allowing itself to be dragged out of principle by any particular consideration, rejected the reasons alleged by the petitioners, and did not allow the inhabitants of the Old Town, who were subject to all charges established by the law on towns and villages, who were subject to an exclusion which had not been decreed by law, and which could not be since the Old Town had existed for as long as a century, and that it had never been abolished, even since the establishment of the new city.
Moreover, St-Michel du Sud, Petit Bourg de Port Margot and Borgne, the village of Ca Ira, l'Acul de Petit-Goave, and an infinite number of other points of the Republic, where there was neither justice of the peace, nor proposed administration, but which were supposed to be part of the main town on which they depended, were in the same position as the Old Town of Aquin; and all traded freely.
President Boyer expressed this categorically to General Bergerac Trichet by his dispatch of February 5, 1835.
The following year, on the occasion of a dispute raised about the expansion of the Old Town, the president wrote to Colonel Solages in Aquin, that he had decided that the limits of this town, in its eastern part, would not go north of the main road to St Michel, the line which separates the site of citizen Pascal, on the Gradice plantation, from the rural property of the widow Jacques Lavoite; and to the south of the same main road to St-Michel, the line which separates the site of Citizen Figareau from the rural property of Citizen Poinson, such as the trace of these lines existed on the map drawn by the engineer officer Villote. Consequently, all those who had formed establishments or bought sites in the portion of expansion between the old limits of the Old Town and the new limits determined above, would definitely enjoy the right to trade there. All those, on the contrary, who were placed to the east of the citizens of the Register Pascal and Figareau were not to claim the same faculty, as being outside the said demarcations: Those being in the case provided for by art.
To the south and to the north, we were not to establish new streets, and the village, on either side of the road, was not to benefit from a deeper widening, that is to say that to the south and north of the existing locations, no other location would be added. The Vieux Bourg d'Aquin is famous for the definitive victory won by Toussaint Louverture over Rigaud in 1800.
• In January 1869, General Saint-Vil Jean took possession of it for President Salnave on the Cacos. Shortly after, in September, those commanded by Brice came to take up the position. Saint-Vil John retired to Morne Ocro.
History[]
At the beginning during the earlier years, there was an imbalance on the old bourgeois scene because of the number of existing primary schools available to a young population. Indeed, there was only one rural school that served more than 5000 inhabitants on an outskirts from the crossroads of L'Asile Road at Carrefour la Colline including Jonc-Dodin, Nerette, Débat, Terre-Blanche, Macéan, Duverger and Flammands. To remedy this situation, a committee has been formed to ensure that education in the Old Town takes a new direction. After consulting, they decided to go to Port-au-Prince to meet with the National Minister of Education to present the problems facing the village.
The minister, as a result of this meeting, being very moved to learn this news, decided to accept this request, except that he wanted to make sure that there was a building capable of housing the new school. Our compatriot, Mr. Wilfrid St Urbain, who was due to leave abroad in September 1964, offered his home to welcome the new school institution. This gesture pleased the minister who later sent inspector Phène Mangones of the Ministry of National Education to inaugurate the new primary school formerly known as the "Ecole Nationale Duval Duvalier". Today it has the name of the Ecole Nationale de Vieux Bourg D'Aquin.
References[]
The story of Vieux Bourg d'Aquin [1]