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Development of Metairie Playground began in 1945, following the end of World War II and during a time of civic progress in Jefferson Parish. [9] The playground was dedicated in 1952. [9] The playground was renamed on June 28, 2003, in memory of Wally Pontiff, Jr., who played college baseball for Louisiana State University. [3]
Jefferson Parish has created many parks in Metairie. Many of these playgrounds have organized sports leagues such as football, baseball, and basketball. Some of them also have other programs, such as low-cost piano lessons. The parks in Metairie are: Cleary Playground; Delta Playground; Doe Playground; Girard Playground; Jim O'Ryan Playground
Museums in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (3 P) P. ... Pontiff Playground; S. Southern Pacific 745 This page was last edited on 17 December 2016, at 03:47 ...
Morehouse Parish: 503 acres (204 ha) [5] 1935 [12] The park was designed with children in mind and has two playgrounds at the day use area. [5] Chicot State Park: Evangeline Parish: 6,400 acres (2,590 ha) [13] [14] 1939 [12] Chicot State Park contains the Louisiana State Arboretum, which has a mature beech–magnolia forest. [14] Cypremort ...
Jefferson Parish acquires an undivided one-half interest in the Downs property with option to acquire balance within an eighteen-month period September 27, 1973 Council Ordinance #11376 establishes the Lafreniere Park Advisory Board June 11, 1974 Jefferson Parish acquires balance of the Downs property January 2, 1975
From the 1940s to the 1970s, Jefferson's population swelled with an influx of middle-class white families from Orleans Parish.The parish's population doubled in size from 1940 to 1950 and again from 1950 to 1960 as the parents behind the post–World War II baby boom, profiting from rising living standards and dissatisfied with their old neighborhoods, chose relocation to new neighborhoods of ...
A subdistrict of the Uptown/Carrollton area, the boundaries as defined by the New Orleans City Planning Commission are the following: Palmetto Street to the north, Cambronne, Edinburgh, Forshey, Fig and Leonidas Streets to the east, Earhart Boulevard to the south and the Jefferson Parish boundary to the west. Conrad playground, the Cuccia ...
Location of Jefferson Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States. The locations of National Register ...