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Lake Pontchartrain from southbound causeway entrance Lake Pontchartrain's north shore at Fontainebleau State Park near Mandeville, Louisiana, in 2004. Lake Pontchartrain (/ ˈ p ɒ n tʃ ə t r eɪ n / PON-chə-trayn; [1] French: Lac Pontchartrain) is an estuary located in southeastern Louisiana in the United States.
The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (French: Chaussée du lac Pontchartrain), also known simply as The Causeway, [2] is a fixed link composed of two parallel bridges crossing Lake Pontchartrain in southeastern Louisiana, United States. The longer of the two bridges is 23.83 miles (38.35 km) long.
Jean Galatoire, an immigrant from a small village near Pau, France, in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains, established a "saloon on Canal Street" in 1896. [1] In 1905, Galatoire purchased Victor's Restaurant, in business at the location since the mid-1800s. [2] Galatoire renamed the restaurant and began cooking the dishes from his homeland.
The term English Market was coined in the 19th century to distinguish the market from the nearby St. Peter's Market (now the site of the Bodega on Cornmarket Street), which was known as the Irish Market. [6] There has been a market on the present site since 1788 [7] when it was opened as a meat shambles and known as "new markets". [8]
Antoine's is a Louisiana Creole cuisine restaurant located at 713 rue St. Louis (St. Louis Street) in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.It is one of the oldest family-run restaurants in the United States, having been established in 1840 by Antoine Alciatore. [2]
Pontchartrain Beach's original location is the present-day lakefront neighborhood of Lake Terrace. In the early 1930s, subsequent to the construction of a seawall extending from West End to the Industrial Canal which created a new shoreline for Lake Pontchartrain, Pontchartrain Beach was moved to a new location at the lake end of Elysian Fields ...
John Churchill Chase (1st Edition was published in 1949.) (1997).Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children and Other Streets of New Orleans, 3rd Edition.Touchstone. {{}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ISBN 0-684-84570-9