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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.
West bank of New Orleans Carrollton Cemetery: 1849: Suburban: Extant: Many in-ground burials City of New Orleans Cemetery Department Greenwood Cemetery: 1852: Historic rural: Extant: Many benevolent associations have monuments there St. Louis Cemetery No. 3: 1854: Roman Catholic: Extant: Elaborate crypts Greek Orthodox section St. Joseph ...
March 20, 1973 (River Rd. (Louisiana Highway 48Destrehan: Completed in 1790, the site of one of three tribunals which tried and executed slaves after the 1811 German Coast Uprising, the largest slave rebellion in U.S. history; this occurred during the Orleans Territorial period, about eighteen months before Louisiana statehood.
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.
Old Ursuline Convent, New Orleans; Orleans Parish Prison; ... Robert E. Lee Monument (New Orleans) ... St. Roch Market;
Chalmette National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located within Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in Chalmette, Louisiana.The cemetery is a 17.5-acre (7.1 ha) graveyard adjacent to the site that was once the battleground of the Battle of New Orleans, which took place at the end of the War of 1812. [2]
The street was laid out atop a slight rise, the remains of an old natural levee, in connection with the construction of the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad, which became the St. Charles Streetcar Line. The long traffic avenue originally used for horse-drawn buggies and wagons, with public rail transit running down the center, helped fuel ...
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 ...