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Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is featured in the historical novel Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen.As depicted in the novel, the "blacksmith shop" was mainly a cover for maintaining a gang of exceptionally tall and strong black slaves – who were ostensibly engaged in shoeing horses while being used by the Lafitte brothers for intimidation, extortion and other criminal activities in and around New ...
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop. April 15, 1970 : 941 Bourbon Street Late 18th-century ... Jean Louis Rabassa House: February 15, 1974 : 1125 St. Ann St.
Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) was a French pirate, privateer, and slave trader who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his older brother Pierre spelled their last name Laffite, but English language documents of the time used "Lafitte".
The original Cafe Lafitte opened in the building that had been the noted pirate Jean Lafitte's blacksmith business in the 18th century. This building is now called Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop. In its early days, the bar was managed by Mary Collins, a lesbian, and drew a mixed crowd of lesbians, homosexuals and heterosexuals.
Pages in category "Cultural depictions of Jean Lafitte" ... Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop; Last of the Buccaneers; The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice; S.
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop: Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop. April 15, 1970 : New Orleans Orleans: Late 18th ... Jean Pierre Emmanuel Prud'homme Oakland Plantation:
1770s – Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop was built, one of the oldest extant buildings in New Orleans. 1779–1781 – Governor-general Bernardo de Gálvez successfully wages the Gulf Coast campaign against British West Florida, as part of the Anglo-Spanish War (1779–83) and in support of the American Revolutionary War. 1788 Great New Orleans Fire ...
Pierre Lafitte (c. 1770–1821) was a pirate in the Gulf of Mexico and smuggler in the early 19th century. He also ran a blacksmith shop in New Orleans, his legitimate business. Pierre was historically less well known than his younger brother, Jean Lafitte. While not as much of a sailor as Jean, Pierre was the public face of the Lafitte ...