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Jefferson is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the north side (referred to as the "East Bank") of the Mississippi River. Jefferson is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan statistical area. The population was 11,193 at the 2010 census, [3] and 10,533 in 2020.
In 1970, Barberot realized that venues for big band were fading away, so he opened his own club, The Jefferson Orleans North. [4] There his band performed big band hits including In The Mood, Moonlight Serenade, Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing), Midnight Tango and Eager Beaver at their weekly concerts for over 35 years.
From the 1940s to the 1970s, Jefferson's population swelled with an influx of middle-class white families from Orleans Parish.The parish's population doubled in size from 1940 to 1950 and again from 1950 to 1960 as the parents behind the post–World War II baby boom, profiting from rising living standards and dissatisfied with their old neighborhoods, chose relocation to new neighborhoods of ...
The Earhart Expressway, named for former New Orleans Commissioner of Public Utilities, Fred A. Earhart, [1] is a state highway located in both Jefferson Parish and Orleans Parish, Louisiana. It is also designated as Louisiana Highway 3139 (LA 3139), spanning a total of 5.2 miles (8.4 km). Although it is an odd-numbered highway and is bannered ...
The original highway was changed to follow US 90 and LA 48. After 1935 Jefferson became S. Claiborne Avenue at the Orleans Parish line and makes a sweeping south-to-north semicircle weaving through New Orleans. As the highway swings north it intersects and runs under an elevated I-10, where it turns northwest along Tulane Avenue.
Louisiana Highway 3152 (LA 3152) is a state highway in Louisiana that serves Jefferson Parish. LA 3152 spans 3.8 miles (6.1 km) in a south to north direction [1] and is known locally as South Clearview Parkway and Clearview Parkway.
As the successor to the Jefferson Highway, LA 1 started a little further south than the Jefferson Highway, but was the same route, more or less. LA 1 began in Pointe-a-la-Hache, continuing north through small communities, making its way to New Orleans. The route description from New Orleans north is as follows:
From the west, LA 611-1 begins on River Road at an intersection with Jefferson Heights Avenue in Jefferson. LA 611-1 continues eastward, running parallel to the Mississippi River, and intersects LA 611-3 (Shrewsbury Road). The route ends at the Jefferson Parish/Orleans Parish Line adjacent to Monticello Avenue. LA 611-1 is known locally as ...