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The New Orleans Yacht Club (NOYC) was founded in June 1949 [1] and is dedicated to further the sport of yacht racing, marine safety and seamanship. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The club is located at West End 's Municipal Yacht Harbor on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain and is a member of the Gulf Yachting Association since 1953.
The lake provides numerous recreational activities for people in New Orleans and is also home to the Southern Yacht Club. In the 1920s, the Industrial Canal in the eastern part of the city opened, providing a direct navigable water connection, with locks , between the Mississippi River and the lake.
Southern Yacht Club House c 1894. The Southern Yacht Club of New Orleans, traces its roots to the Gulf Coast resort of Pass Christian, Mississippi and to the year 1849, making it the second oldest yacht club in the United States. [8] [9] [10] New Orleans in the antebellum era was a proud, thriving port city, banking center and cultural leader ...
The southern end of the causeway at Metairie, Louisiana, in 1998. The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (French: Chaussée du lac Pontchartrain), also known simply as The Causeway, [2] is a fixed link composed of two parallel bridges crossing Lake Pontchartrain in southeastern Louisiana, United States.
New Canal Lighthouse and Southern Yacht Club. West End (also referred to as West Lakeview) is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.A subdistrict of the Lakeview District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Lake Pontchartrain to the north, the New Basin Canal and Pontchartrain Boulevard to the east, Veterans Boulevard to the south, and the 17th Street Canal ...
In the Lake of the Ozarks area, US 54 was rerouted onto a new 4 lane highway in 2010 and another part of US 54 was rerouted in 2011 in the Lake of the Ozarks area. [6] [7] The old US 54 was renamed "Osage Beach Parkway." The original Champ Clark Bridge opened in 1928. In 2019, a replacement bridge opened and the old one was torn down.
Missouri Route 242, also known as Horseshoe Bend Parkway, is a short highway in central Missouri found within Lake Ozark.The highway runs from the US 54 expressway junction near Osage Beach in Miller County in the east to Route MM (near the Lake of the Ozarks Community Bridge, originally a toll bridge) in Camden County.
The Little Niangua River is a 64.4-mile-long (103.6 km) [3] tributary of the Niangua River in the Ozarks region of central Missouri in the United States. Via the Niangua, Osage and Missouri rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. The Little Niangua was so named for its smaller size relative to the Niangua River. [4]