Ville de Mirebalais, Downtown Mirebalais, Central Haiti, is the central business district of Mirebalais and is located along the Artibonite River where it abuts Route Nationale 3.
It is home to the Mirebalais Teaching Hospital.
Neighboring sections
| North 3e des Bayes, BCA |
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|---|---|---|
⬅️ West  3e Grand Boucan |
Ville de Mirebalais Mirebalais |
East   2e Sarazin➡️ |
| ⬇️ South 4e Crète Brulée |
About[]
The village is established on a plateau which is part of a series of peninsulas formed by the Artibonite river which passes to the north, and by the rivers of La Tumbe, La Colline and Du Bourg, and that of Jean le Bras and Rivière de Fer-à-Cheval. It is surrounded by arid hills and has a rocky terrain.
It owed its existence to the establishment of a church around which were built thatched houses which were burnt down, as well as the church, in 1749; it was immediately rebuilt, and its church rebuilt in masonry. It was dedicated to St. Louis, like the previous one, which brings many people to designate this borough by the name of this saint. In 1781, a hurricane destroyed it. Apart from a multi-story houses with tin roofs, there are, like Las Cahobas, a large number of thatched cottages with palm bark roofs. Places of interest include the Magazine de l'Etat. (State House), Arsenale, and the Palace.
Mirebalais Church
City Hall. Mirebalais, Haiti
Area map
Mirebalais Historic Map
History[]
• The church and part of the village were burnt down on September 10, 1751.
• On March 10, 1792, at Croix-des-Bouquets, Beauvais and Pinchinat attacked 8,000 Port Republican troops, then withdrew with their artillery to Mirebalais.
• In February 1795, the English of Arcahaie and Port-Républicain marched in two columns, on Mirebalais which they removed. They entered it without striking a blow, chasing away the Spaniards who were however their allies against the French. The same year, Toussaint Louverture sent his brother Paul Louverture take possession of it; but the English drove him away. The English major-general, Forbes, who commanded there, had fortifications erected there to conceal the borders.
• On March 26, 1797' Toussaint himself came to attack the English. The Viscount of Bruges, who was in command there, evacuated the village before Toussaint's arrival.
• In March 1802, General Rochambeau; after seizing the Cahos, marched on Mirebaiais where he destroyed stores of the natives and dispersed their gatherings. From Mirebalais, he advanced on Créte-å-Pierrot. Dessalines left the fort of Crete with 300 men, entered the mountains, and kept the French in check in the parades.
• On March 4, 1802, General d'Henin, who commanded the front guard of Boudet's division, after having removed Trianon, entered Mirebalais which he found in ashes. Three hundred corpses of white settlers lay on the ground on the Chirry (or Chitrie) plantation. The entire countryside was in flames, and the French columns marched only through smoking ruins and pools of blood. Boudet's division headed toward Verrettes.
In December, Pétion seized Mirebaiais, which David Troy evacuated. The church was filled with sick and wounded who were despoiled. Pétion bivouacked in Savanne-la-Roue. The adjutant general Luthier left Hinche with 200 men and marched on Mirebalais, which he seized. David Troy returned to take up his post for the French on the 15th of the same month.
• On May 29, 1803, Pétion and Charlotin Marcadieu took control of the Lafond plantation in the Mirebalais Plain from the French troops, with Pétion defeating General Kerverseau of France.
• On June 10, 1809, General Bonnet, with Lacroix and Beauregard, entered Mirebalais. Gérin, having under his orders Vérret and Marion, passed the Fer-à-Cheval to cross the Artibonite at the ford of Lascahobas, the heavy waters and the fortifications built on the banks of the river by Pierre Toussaint stopped the march of Pétion's troops. The army then moved to Créte-Brûlée.
• In 1812, after the siege of Port-au-Prince by Christophe, Mirebalais went into a state of revolt against the king of the North. General Almanjor, commander for the king, was murdered. General Benjamin Noél left Mirebalais to enter Artibonite immediately after the revolt of Saint-Marc against Christophe. He entered at Verrettes on October 13, 1820, and Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite on the 15th. In January 1859, Mirebalais took part in the general insurrection of the Cacos against Salnave. In July, the Cacos of Mirebalais seized the posts Diaquois and Grands-Bois.
• During the insurrection of the Northerners in 1888, Mirebalais spoke in their favor. When the troops of President Légitime, commanded by the Minister of War Anselme Prophet, the city surrendered to the government of the Ouest. During the rout of General O. Piquant, at Dessalines, Mirebalais again spoke out in favor of the Northerners, in May 1889.
• Monsignor Casimir de Vincent was Duke of Mirebalais under the Empire, in 1849.
• In 1901, L. Gentil Tippenhauer conducted a study on the geological region of Mirebalais. The region of Mirebalais is designated as offering the greatest possibilities for oilfields, according to the report by American experts.
• The official inauguration of the main national road from Port-au-Prince to Mirebalais restored by the American occupation took place on February 23, 1918. President Dartiguenave took part in this trip, which was a wonderful 2 hour drive by car. At the top of Morne a Cabrit, after the hamlet of Butler, one has the whole Cul-de-Sac plain and the two Haitian and Dominican ponds at their feet.
• On June 12, 1918, the population voted for the constitution by 527 yes and 2 no.
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