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1913-07-23

Magasin Carriès station of the Port-au-Prince to Saint-Marc railway inaugurated

Haitian

MAGASIN CARRIES. Habitation of 700 carreaux of land belonging to the heirs of Alexis Carriès, located in the rural section of Mont-Rouis, commune of the Arcahaie, on the road to Saint Marc. There are indeed on this habitation, fairly near the seashore, old ruins of warehouses which served the cultivators of the surrounding area in colonial times. Property of the heirs of Alexis Carrié. Saltpeter mines, forests of cachiman trees. 58.63 km or 14.66 lieues from Port-au-Prince. Station of the railway from Port-au-Prince to Saint Marc, inaugurated on 23 July 1913. In 1918 the heirs of Alexis Carrié sold 100 carreaux of land.

Rouzier tells this under the entry MAGASIN CARRIES.

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 183 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 183