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December 2, 1974 (New Orleans: Orleans: This was the home of James Hardy Dillard, an educator at Tulane University and director of the Slater Fund and Jeanes Foundation.Born in 1856, Dillard spent most of his life improving the education of blacks in the United States.
Location of Orleans Parish in Louisiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Orleans Parish, Louisiana.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, United States, which is consolidated with the city of New Orleans.
This is a list of properties and districts in Louisiana that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are listings in each of Louisiana's 64 parishes . The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below), may be seen in a map by clicking on "Map of ...
Fort Pike State Historic Site: Orleans Parish: 22 acres (9 ha) Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site: Natchitoches Parish: 5 acres (2 ha) Forts Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site: Rapides Parish: 103 acres (42 ha) Locust Grove State Historic Site: West Feliciana Parish: 1 acre (.4 ha) Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site: St ...
The first small fort here was erected by the French in 1701, before the founding of the city of New Orleans, to protect the important trade route along Bayou St. John. After Louisiana passed to Spanish control, a larger brick fort was constructed at the site of the neglected old French fortification; this was known as San Juan del Bayou ...
Fort Macomb is a 19th-century United States brick fort in Louisiana, on the western shore of Chef Menteur Pass. [1] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The fort is adjacent to the Venetian Isles community, now legally within the city limits of New Orleans, Louisiana. This community was some miles distant from the city when ...
1880 map of the Isle of Orleans. Île d'Orléans (French for "Isle of Orleans") was the historic name for the New Orleans area, in present-day Louisiana, U.S.A.. In 1762, France, anticipating that Great Britain would take Louisiana at the end of the French and Indian War, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau transferred to Spain all of Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, as well as a newly ...
Parkview Historic District along North Carrollton Ave at night, August 2018. The Parkview Historic District in New Orleans, Louisiana is a 263-acre (106 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1995. [1] The district included 1,349 buildings, 92 percent of which were deemed to be contributing ...