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  2. Mississippi Delta - Wikipedia

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    The shifting river delta at the mouth of the Mississippi on the Gulf Coast lies some 300 miles south of this area in Louisiana, and is referred to as the Mississippi River Delta. Rather, the Mississippi Delta is part of an alluvial plain , created by regular flooding of the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers over thousands of years.

  3. Mississippi River Delta - Wikipedia

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    3. The St. Bernard delta formed 4,000 to 2,000 years ago following an avulsion that caused the river's relocation to the east of present-day New Orleans. [6] 4. The Lafourche delta formed 2,500 to 500 years ago from a second avulsion that caused the river to relocate to the west of present-day New Orleans. [6] 5.

  4. History of Italians in Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    The Delta Italians: their pursuit of "the better life" and their struggle against mosquitos, floods, and prejudice. Publisher P.V. Canonici. New Orleans, 2003 ISBN 0974558907; Magnaghi, Russell M. "Louisiana's Italian Immigrants Prior to 1870". Louisiana History magazine (Winter 1986), pp. 43–68. Rea, Robert (Spring 2014).

  5. 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.

  6. History of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    The land mass that was to become the city of New Orleans was formed around 2200 BCE when the Mississippi River deposited silt creating the delta region. Before Europeans colonized the area, it was inhabited by Native Americans for about 1300 years. [ 1 ]

  7. La Balize, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    By 1722 the center of the French colony was in New Orleans. In the early 18th century, the Roman Catholic Church quickly established seven pioneer parishes in the Louisiana colony, among them the parish at La Balize, founded in 1722. The French also founded four pioneer parishes in early villages of what are now Mississippi and Alabama. [5]

  8. Richard Koch (architect) - Wikipedia

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    The collection at Tulane University has been characterized as being "among the most comprehensive visual surveys of historic Mississippi delta architecture now in a public archive". [6] Also at the time of his death, Koch bequeathed a substantial number of his photographs and art works to The Historic New Orleans Collection.

  9. History of Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    A History of Mississippi 2 vols. (1973), thorough coverage by scholars; Mitchell, Dennis J., A New History of Mississippi (2014) Ownby, Ted et al. eds. The Mississippi Encyclopedia (2017) Sansing, David G. Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi, 2004) Skates, John Ray.