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Reggio, also named Bencheque, is a places perteneced to Louisiana state, in United States. This place, inhabited since the second half of the eighteenth century, has a small Isleño American population
History
Saint Bernard was populated by two Canarian family groups between 1778 and 1784. The first group settled in St. Bernard and Toca villages in 1779, called "El Primer Asentamiento" (First Settlement), while the second group was established in a region (originally "El Segundo Establecimiento") which they named Benchijigua in honor of the village of Benchijigua on the island of La Gomera where a second population arrived.{{#tag:ref|The number of Gomeros who migrated to Louisiana was 393 people, making up 85 families, most of them from Tenerife[1]
However, with the arrival of French-speaking sugar planters to the region, the name of the village changed to Bencheque, and is currently known as Bencheque-Reggio. [2]
References
- ^ Santana Pérez, Juan Manuel; Sánchez Suárez, José Antonio. Emigración por Reclutamientos canarios en Luisiana (Recruitment emigration Canarian in Louisiana). Servicio de Publicaciones, 1992. Page 133
- ^ http://www.losislenos.org/history.html St. Bernard Isleños. LOUISIANA'S SPANISH TREASURE. Los Islenos. Retrieved December 22, 2011, to 19:28 pm.
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