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1884

Waterworks bring the Leclerc spring to Port-au-Prince

Haitian

SOURCE LECLERC or BAIN LECLERC. Spring situated in the heights of Martissant, near Port-au-Prince. It supplies this city; this work, carried out in 1884, is due to the Haitian engineer Léon Laforestrie. It appears that Mme Leclerc, Pauline, sister of Bonaparte, used to go there to bathe. For that reason it was given this name. This spring belongs to the city of Port-au-Prince. A boundary to the south of the city of Port-au-Prince ran by the Source Leclerc as far as Fort Mercredi and the Diquini spring.

Rouzier tells this under the entry SOURCE LECLERC ou BAIN LECLERC.

Source  ·  p. t. IV, p. 155 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. IV) (1928), p. t. IV, p. 155