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- ↑ Rob Mann (2012). "Plazas and Power: Canary Islanders at Galveztown, an Eighteenth-Century Spanish Colonial Outpost in Louisiana". Historical Archaeology. 46 (1: Cosmopolitanism and Ethnogenesis, Colonialism and Resistance: Themes in the Historical Archaeology of Florida). Retrieved 22 August 2020.
- ↑ Louisiana Writers' Project (1941). Louisiana: A Guide to the State – Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration. New York. p. 542. ISBN 0403021693.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Ben Cahoon. U.S. States F-K.