Talk:Jean Lafitte, Louisiana

New Historical Plaque
It appears appears that this community is connected to the History of Filipino Americans. I have found several sources that note that nearby this community there was a community that use to exist (before 1965) called Manila Village. Here are some sources to support this: I will notify the appropriate wikiprojects about this, and hope that someone incorporates these reliable sources into this article.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 21:52, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

I bring this up, as there is no History section, and don't know if creating a new article would be better, or if just creating a redirect for Manila Village to this article would be best.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 21:57, 20 August 2012 (UTC)

Without any objections heard, I will introduce content regarding this int he article space.--RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 17:20, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

My family lived at and shrimped out of Manila Village from the time it was established in 1895 until the village was destroyed. A great uncle, Hermogenes Ferniz, owned a camp called Camp Dewey, in Plaquemines just over the parish line from Manila Village in Jefferson Parish. He purchased the camp from the Wilkenson family, for whom my family also worked seasonally during sugar cane harvest. My recently deceased aunt, Eiola Martinez, described the camps at Manila Village: "They were just one big room that everybody slept in. They slept on mats on the floor, and all crowded together.  Sometimes, a mother would roll over their baby and the baby would die in the night.  Still, the family loved the life, going from New Orleans to Manila Village to the Wilkenson Plantation different times of the year.  I didn't like it, and I was glad when your Uncle Ben settled down to a job in the city." She added, though, that Uncle Ben still went out on the boat when my great grandfather, Benito Martinez, became too old and ill to shrimp. A marker was recently put up to commemorate Manila Village; it was placed in Lafitte because Manila Village no longer exists in the Bay. We are trying to get a similar marker for St. Bernard Parish to commemorate the St. Malo community, where my first ancestor fished back in the 1800's, and where the oldest recorded Filipino settlement was. I hope this helps. RhondaRichoux (talk) 05:49, 1 May 2013 (UTC)Rhonda Lee Richoux

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