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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.
City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300. Chapell Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1450223942. Blassingame, John W. (1973). Black New Orleans, 1860–1880. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Brinkley, Douglas (2006). Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. New York ...
On the Mississippi River, most shipping was down river on log rafts or wooden boats that were dismantled and sold as lumber in the vicinity of New Orleans. Steam-powered river navigation began in 1811–12, between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New Orleans. Inland steam navigation rapidly expanded in the following decades.
Fort St. John and Fort St. Charles, north and east of New Orleans respectively [2] Spanish Fort , also known as Old Spanish Fort , Fort St. Jean , and Fort St. John ( Spanish : Fuerte de San Juan del Bayou ), is a historic place in New Orleans , Louisiana, formerly the site of a fort and later an amusement park .
The growth of New Orleans in the early 20th century led to part of Bayou Bienvenue being drained for expansion of the city. In the 1920s, the dredging and installation of locks creating the Industrial Canal , which connected Lake Pontchartrain to the Mississippi River, marked the beginning of the man-made interference that lead to the eventual ...
Fort Jackson is a historic masonry fort located 40 miles (64 km) up river from the mouth of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. It was constructed as a coastal defense of New Orleans, between 1822 and 1832, and it was a battle site during the American Civil War. [2] It is a National Historic Landmark.
Colorful architecture in New Orleans, both old and new. The buildings and architecture of New Orleans reflect its history and multicultural heritage, from Creole cottages to historic mansions on St. Charles Avenue, from the balconies of the French Quarter to an Egyptian Revival U.S. Customs building and a rare example of a Moorish revival church.
Sauvé's Crevasse was a Mississippi River levee failure in May 1849 that resulted in flooding much of New Orleans, Louisiana. Flooding on Canal Street, New Orleans caused by the crevasse, painted in 1849 by Elizabeth Lamoisse. In May 1849 the Mississippi reached the highest water level in this area observed in twenty-one years.