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  2. Hancock Whitney Center - Wikipedia

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    Hancock Whitney Center, formerly One Shell Square, is a 51-story, 697-foot (212 m) skyscraper designed in the International style by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, located at 701 Poydras Street in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana.

  3. Norco, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Norco is a census-designated place (CDP) in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,984 at the 2020 census. [4] The community is home to a major Shell/Valero manufacturing complex. The CDP's name is derived from the New Orleans Refining Company.

  4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Orleans ...

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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.

  5. Shell plant explosion in Norco, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Norco is named for the New Orleans Refining Company. In 1916, a Shell affiliate built an oil refinery on the site of an antebellum plantation. In 1953, Shell bought a second plantation site. The property that Shell bought was the site of a major slave revolt in 1811. Black sharecroppers were farming the land when Shell announced that they were ...

  6. Ursa tension leg platform - Wikipedia

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    The Ursa tension leg platform is an oil platform with a tension leg structure located at about 130 miles (210 km) southeast of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico. It is operated by Shell. It has a total height from the seabed to its top of 4,285 feet (1,306 m).

  7. Ashland Plantation - Wikipedia

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    Duncan Kenner had a race track, [12] raced horses, and in 1854 a slave named Abe Hawkins, [13] riding Lecomte, won over a horse named Lexington in New Orleans. Abe was inducted into the Louisiana Racing Museum Hall of Fame in 1997. While Kenner was absent from Louisiana the Civil War ended.

  8. Report: New Orleans is Louisiana's most expensive metro area

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    In New Orleans, $100 is worth $106.80 based on the nation average. Baton Rouge is the next most expensive area at $108.10. Every other metro area in the Pelican State has purchasing power over $110.

  9. List of National Historic Landmarks in Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    New Orleans: Commissioned during 1943, The USS Cabot (CVL-28/AVT-3) was an Independence-class aircraft carrier in the United States Navy. From 1967 to 1989, it was used by the Spanish navy as the Dédalo. A New Orleans–based museum foundation purchased the ship for restoration during 1990, but was unable to obtain sufficient funding.