Ville d'Aquin is a census-designated place (CDP) in the town of Aquin, in Southern Haiti. It is often referred to as a port. The population was 9,192 at the 2015 census.
Aquin Medical Center
Rue Dessalines, Aquin Center
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About[]
Aquin Pier
Aquin Center is considered to be the commune's primary settlement. It is the location of Aquin's town hall and of the town harbor. In addition, Aquin Center is home to Place d'Armes, Parc Dupin Castor Fils, and the Saint Thomas d'Aquin Information Centre.
History[]
Built on an alluvial ground where the stone is a lack, the city should be able to handle channels essential to its remediation. Some without fountain access comment on being obliged to fetch drinking water far enough away, and yet the city is flooded every time the rain returns. It is stretched and has large houses, some of which are in ruins, with empty sites in large numbers.
The town was severely damaged by the hurricanes of 1878 and September 9, 1737. On April 19, 1891, the Place de la Fusion was inaugurated in the case of President Hippolyte. The campêche wood trade gives a little animation to the locality. Up to the gates of the city, the road meets bouquets of sugar cane along the way to a small mill: the syrup that comes from it is consumed almost exclusively by the inhabitants.
• On June 29, 1800, after the Battle of Petite Vallée the Rigaudins, retreating towards the South, entrenched themselves at Trémé, or Dufrétey, a small hill and plantation located at the bottom of the plain between Fonds-des-Nègres and Aquin. General Laplume could not remove their rampart. However the next day he succeeded in turning it around and seizing it. It was in this affair that Auger, who had converted to glory at the siege of Jacmel, was mortally wounded. He went to end his days in Les Cayes. Laplume, by false maneuvers, sacrificed a large number of his soldiers. Colonel Pierre Louis Diane was seriously injured. Laplume, unhappy to have seen the command-in-chief of the army entrusted to Colonel Donnage, his inferior, had given only weakly.
Dessalines, not giving the enemy time to recover, ordered a division of 8000 men to go and seize the heights of Trémé. Clervau could not take possession of it until after a very bloody fight. Dessalines, advancing in two columns. reached it on July 5. From Dufréte he discovered the troops of the South ranged in the plain which stretched out at his feet. They numbered 700 men commanded by General Rigaud in person. Desalines descended the hills with the right column, while Clervaux, guided through woods and ravines by Gils Bambara, a mountaineer of Petit-Goâve, endeavored to turn the enemy.
General Rigaud, struck by the enemy's numerical force, fell back with haste on Aquin, located 3 leagues away.
Following the Battle of Aquin on July 7, 1800, Dessalines, while en route to Anse-à-Veau, took refuge for the night at the Piemont estate, situated two leagues from Anse-à-Veau along the Aquin Road.
When Pétion learned of the Southern split in 1810, he sent out 1500 troops under the command of General Delva, seconded by General Gédéon. Delva went to the Miragoâne Bridge, and from there to the Tréme plantation; but he returned to occupy the bridge.
In 1812 when this split ended, the principal generals of the South met the president in Tréme on March 20. The President planned to confer with General Borgella.
Morne Tréme extends to the Hermitage to go up to the place called the Bonnet Carré which, in clear weather, you can see the fort built by Dessalines in 1804.
• The Solage plantation in Aquin was named for a colonist named Solage who was protected by General Jean Louis Francois in 1803. Forsaken by the massacre of the French, he was able to embark and leave the country. Under President Boyer, General Solage was commandant of the Aquin Arrondissement.
Vigil[]
Located near Ville d'Aquin, this habitation has magnificent viewpoints, notably the one at the top of a plateau where the sea of the southern coast presents itself for the first time. Samples of charcoal were found near this habitation.
Rigaud retreating in the South before the army of the North was victorious over Dessalines in the battle of Vigil which took place on June 29, 1800. However, not being able to resist the number, on July 5, Rigaud built a retreat; the brigade commander, Oge, wounded at Treme, died at the age of 28 at Vigil; he had performed prodigies of value alongside Segrettier, Boyer and Papailler at the siege of Jacmel.
References[]
Inauguration of a pier at Aquin - [1]