Terre-Aux-Boeuf

The Isleños who stayed at San Bernardo kept the most of what they brought. About 2,100 Canary Islanders reached Louisiana between 1778 and 1783 and founded four settlements; San Bernardo and Valenzuela did best, while Galveztown and Barataria suffered disease and flooding. Here the eighteenth-century Canarian Spanish lasted into the twenty-first century. So did the décima, a ten-line sung verse from sixteenth-century Spain, usually comic or satirical, with tall tales and verses about hurricanes, floods and the wetlands. Alcée Fortier wrote down a fragment from an elderly singer in 1891. The Los Isleños museum stands beside the marker.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 9.4 mi
  The ground of the January 8, 1815 Battle of New Orleans, beside Chalmette National Cemetery and the site of Fazendeville, a freedpeople's community founded in 1867 and bought out in the 1960s.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 14 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Cabildo — 14 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 14 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.

More markers nearby

• St. Malo — steps away
• Plaquemines Parish — 3.3 mi
• Fort St. Leon — 6.5 mi
• Plantation of Jacques Philippe Villere — 6.7 mi