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Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is featured in the historical novel Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen.As depicted in the novel, the "blacksmith shop" was mainly a cover for maintaining a gang of exceptionally tall and strong black slaves – who were ostensibly engaged in shoeing horses while being used by the Lafitte brothers for intimidation, extortion and other criminal activities in and around New ...
Tremé (/ t r ə ˈ m eɪ / trə-MAY) is a neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana."Tremé" is often rendered as Treme, and the neighborhood is sometimes called by its more formal French name, the Faubourg Tremé; [1] it is listed in the New Orleans City Planning Districts as Tremé / Lafitte when including the Lafitte Projects.
Location of Orleans Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Orleans Parish, Louisiana.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, which is consolidated with the city of New Orleans.
Polk, a New Orleans resident, is the last of the 14 known victims of the attack to be identified. On Saturday, her family told the Times-Picayune that her brother, Printisis Polk, was still missing.
Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) was a French pirate, privateer, and slave trader who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his older brother Pierre spelled their last name Laffite, but English language documents of the time used "Lafitte".
Family members and friends have begun identifying the 14 people who died in the truck-ramming attack early Wednesday morning on Bourbon Street in New Orleans. The suspect, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was ...
Cafe Lafitte in Exile is a bar in New Orleans' French Quarter that has operated continuously since 1933. It claims to be the oldest continuously operating gay bar in the United States (along with White Horse Inn in Oakland, California, which has also operated since 1933).
Jambalaya. Spicy, hearty, and incredibly flavorful, jambalaya is a New Orleans classic for good reason. Its complex flavor is informed by cuisines from around the world—Spanish, West African ...