1890-09-25
Law makes the Gonaïves a commune of the 2nd class
Haitian
Gonaïves (les). Commune of the 2nd class (law of 25 September 1890), chief town of the arrondissement of the same name and of the department of the Artibonite, and of the school district. It comprises six rural sections, which are: The 1st, of the Gonaïves; the 2nd, of Desdunes; the 3rd, of the Petite-Rivière des Bayonnais; the 4th, of the Poteaux; the 5th, of Labrande; the 6th, of Bassin.
Rouzier tells this under the entry Gonaïves (les).
Source · p. t. II, p. 17
Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. II) (1892), p. t. II, p. 17