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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
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]
With a population of 143,507 in 2020, [2] Metairie is the largest community in Jefferson Parish and was (as of 2010) the fifth-largest CDP in the United States. [3] It is an unincorporated area that (as of 2020) would have been Louisiana's fourth-largest city behind Shreveport if incorporated.
Jefferson Parish (French: Paroisse de Jefferson) is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census , the population was 440,781. [ 1 ] Its parish seat is Gretna , its largest community is Metairie , [ 2 ] and its largest incorporated city is Kenner .
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 ...
Louisiana state parks have many accommodations, including overnight cabins, boating rentals, guided daily tours, and fishing piers. In 2002, Louisiana state parks had more than 2 million visitors. [2] With the addition of Palmetto Island State Park in 2010, Louisiana state parks comprise more than 30,000 acres (12,000 ha) of land.
Bayou Segnette State Park is located in Westwego, Jefferson Parish, southwest of New Orleans, Louisiana, on the west bank of the Mississippi River.. Bayou Segnette is not far from the urban center of New Orleans, yet it features access to two types of wetlands, swamp and marsh.
Jefferson is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the north side (referred to as the "East Bank") of the Mississippi River. Jefferson is part of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan statistical area. The population was 11,193 at the 2010 census, [3] and 10,533 in 2020.