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Bayou St. John (French: Bayou Saint-Jean) is a bayou within the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. [1]The grand Bayou St. John in 1728. The Bayou as a natural feature drained the swampy land of a good portion of what was to become New Orleans, into Lake Pontchartrain.
Atchafalaya Basin. The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana, often called "Bayou".. The Louisiana coastal zone stretches from the border of Texas to the Mississippi line [1] and comprises two wetland-dominated ecosystems, the Deltaic Plain of the Mississippi River (unit 1, 2, and 3) and the closely linked Chenier Plain (unit 4). [2]
The New Orleans Mint was reopened in 1879, minting mainly silver coinage, including the famed Morgan silver dollar from 1879 to 1904. 1888 German map of New Orleans, with surrounding communities of Algiers, Carrollton, Gretna. The city suffered flooding in 1882. The city hosted the 1884 World's Fair, called the World Cotton Centennial. A ...
The New Basin Canal was constructed by the New Orleans Canal and Banking Company, incorporated in 1831 with capital of 4 million US dollars.The intent was to build a shipping canal from Lake Pontchartrain through the swamp land to the booming uptown or "American" section of the city, to compete with the existing Carondelet Canal in the downtown Creole part of the city.
Bayou Bienvenue is a 12.1-mile-long (19.5 km) [1] bayou and "ghost swamp" [2] in southeastern Louisiana. It runs along the political border between Orleans Parish and St. Bernard Parish to the east of New Orleans.
La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded in the spring of 1718 (May 7 has become the traditional date to mark the anniversary, but the actual day is unknown) [40] by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, on land inhabited by the Chitimacha.
The Spanish Governor Antonio de Ulloa at the Isle of Orleans gave them supplies, and they settled around San Gabriel de Manchac. [ 12 ] For about three months, from April 30 to August 4, 1812, Bayou Manchac was the northern border of eastern Louisiana , until the addition of the Florida Parishes was approved by the state legislature.
Little Woods (French: La Petite Bois) was historically an unincorporated community on the shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain. The name in French, "La Petite Bois" or The Little Woods can be found on the 1883 Lafon-Alphonse Michoud Map drafted by civil-engineer George N. Grandjean. [3] "Little Woods", as a place designation that continues in local use.