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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.
The Third Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1800 restored French control of New Orleans and Louisiana, but Napoleon sold both to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. [55] Thereafter, the city grew rapidly with influxes of Americans, French, Creoles and Africans. Later immigrants were Irish, Germans, Poles and Italians.
The largest municipality by population in Louisiana in 2020 is New Orleans with 383,997 residents, and the smallest is Mound with 12 residents. [1] The largest municipality by land area is New Orleans, which spans 169.49 sq mi (439.0 km 2), while Napoleonville is the smallest at 0.17 sq mi (0.44 km 2). [7]
Orleans Parish: 071: New Orleans: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. Today coterminous with the City of New Orleans. Named after Philippe, Duke of Orléans, the regent of France 364,136: 350 sq mi (906 km 2) Ouachita Parish: 073: Monroe: 1807: One of the original 19 parishes. The Ouachita Native American people 157,568: 633 sq mi (1,639 km ...
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a historic structure at the corner of Bourbon Street and St. Philip Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.Most likely built as a house in the 1770s during the Spanish colonial period, it is one of the oldest surviving structures in New Orleans.
Covington is a city in and the parish seat of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States. [2] The population was 11,564 at the 2020 United States census . [ 3 ] It is located at a fork of the Bogue Falaya and the Tchefuncte River .
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.
Tchoupitoulas Street (/ ˌ tʃ ɒ p ɪ ˈ t uː l ə s / ⓘ CHOP-ih-TOO-ləss) is a street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Running through uptown, it is the through street closest to the Mississippi River. Formerly, the street was heavily devoted to river shipping commerce, but as shipping concerns gravitated to other locations in ...