Terre Aux Boeufs Cementary (for the Louisiana Canary Islanders)

When planning the four day drone video shoot, I did not realize that the Isleños cemetery was for the Canary Islanders whom I had heard of previously. We just by chance saw the cemetery and the resulting research was illuminating.
Isleños are a Spanish ethnic group living in the state of Louisiana in the United States, consisting of people primarily from the Canary Islands. Isleños are descendants of colonists who settled in Spanish Louisiana between 1778 and 1783 and intermarried with other communities such as French, Acadians, Creoles, Hispanic Americans, Filipinos, and other groups, mainly through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In Louisiana, the Isleños originally settled in four communities which included Galveztown, Valenzuela, Barataria, and San Bernardo. Of those settlements, Valenzuela and San Bernardo were the most successful as the other two were plagued with both disease and flooding. The large migration of Acadian refugees to Bayou Lafourche led to the rapid gallicization of the Valenzuela community while San Bernardo was able to preserve much of its unique culture and language into the twenty-first century. However, the transmission of Spanish and other customs has completely halted in St. Bernard Parish, with those having competency in Spanish being octogenarians.

[@sheilaathay2034]

Does that translate to Land of Beef? I'm just curious. Interesting place

[@gregorydaley967]

Yes it does. They settled in farms that raised cows. Originally oxen, but later cows. Fascinating history.

[@sheilaathay2034]

@@gregorydaley967 thank you!