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For these reasons, tombs at St. Louis Cemetery came to be considered status symbols in the community. [2]: 1–40 Death records of the city of New Orleans show that the Bayou St. John Cemetery was opened in 1835 for the corpses of people who died from the yellow fever epidemics.
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.
Bayou St. John (French: Bayou Saint-Jean), also known as Faubourg St. John, is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.A subdistrict of the Mid-City area, its boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are: Esplanade Avenue to the north, North Broad Street to the east, St. Louis Street to the south, and the Bayou St. John waterway, the neighborhood's namesake, to the west.
500 St. Ann St. and 500 St. Peter St. 29°57′27″N 90°03′46″W / 29.9575°N 90.062778°W / 29.9575; -90.062778 ( Pontalba Buildings c. 1850 matching townhouse buildings with first-floor retail shops; on either side of Jackson Square , constructed by New Orleans native Micaela Almonester, Baroness de Pontalba
part of the Neo-Classical Architecture of Bayou Rapides TR 3: Senator John H. Overton House: July 18, 1985 (#85001584) November 29, 2016: 1128 8th St. Alexandria: Demolished in 1997. [7] 4: Oxland: December 5, 1984
St. Charles: Built circa 1790, large French Colonial raised cottage. Not open to the public. 04001470 Hope Plantation House: January 11, 2005: Garyville: St. John the Baptist 80001694 The Houmas: September 27, 1980: Burnside: Ascension: 92001529 Indian Camp Plantation: November 18, 1992: Carville: Iberville: Listed as the "Carville Historic ...
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.
Hurricane Katrina heavily impacted much of the Ward. [11] Lakeview is only some dozen blocks from the notorious breach in the 17th Street Canal. [12] [13] Narrow strips of land at the two ends of the Ward, in the French Quarter by the Riverfront and on some of the higher ground of the Lakeshore, were above the flood waters. [14]