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The United States, which had acquired possession from France in 1803, adopted the French name and anglicized it to New Orleans. New Orleans has several nicknames, including these: Crescent City, alluding to the course of the Lower Mississippi River around and through the city. [36]
The Battle of Liberty Place, or Battle of Canal Street, was an attempted insurrection by the Crescent City White League against the Reconstruction Era Louisiana Republican state government on September 14, 1874, in New Orleans, which was the capital of Louisiana at the time.
The Crescent City Connection and the New Orleans skyline. The Crescent City Connection (CCC), formerly the Greater New Orleans (GNO) Bridge, is a pair of cantilever bridges that carry U.S. Highway 90 Business (US 90 Bus.) over the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. They are tied as the fifth-longest cantilever bridges ...
Plaza Tower (for a time dubbed Crescent City Towers and Crescent City Residences in a failed proposed redevelopment scheme) is a 45-story, 531-foot (162 m) skyscraper in New Orleans, Louisiana, designed in the modern style by Leonard R. Spangenberg, Jr. & Associates.
New Orleans natives may be slightly disappointed to find that a movie titled “Crescent City” — long a popular nickname for the storied Louisiana metropolis — actually is set in and around ...
"Crescent City", a song about New Orleans by Lucinda Williams from her 1988 self-titled album Crescent City Radio , an Internet radio station based in New Orleans, Louisiana Crescent City , a hyper-opera by composer Anne LeBaron , premiered in Los Angeles 2012
The ongoing vitalization of the Crescent City’s music culture really is like something out of a horn salesman’s fever dream, with younger generations readily taking up New Orleans ...
New Orleans may not be the first place that comes to mind for an intimate getaway, but beyond Bourbon Street, the Crescent City knows how to lean into love. Stroll hand in hand through New Orleans ...