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According to the Greater New Orleans Community Data Center, Uptown also refers to a specific neighborhood that is bounded by Napoleon Avenue, Magazine Street, Jefferson Avenue and La Salle Street. The neighborhood was once known as Faubourg Bouligny, until it became part of Jefferson City. The area was annexed by New Orleans in 1870. [21]
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. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
In 2005, a 500-year-old map that identified the new world as “America” sold for a whopping $1 million at auction. These early maps, which are are prized for their historical significance and ...
Magazine Street is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana. Like Tchoupitoulas Street , St. Charles Avenue , and Claiborne Avenue , it follows the curving course of the Mississippi River . The street took its name from an ammunition magazine located in this vicinity during the 18th-century colonial period.
Row of shops along lower Magazine Street in the 10th Ward. The 10th Ward is a division of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. The 10th Ward is one of the 17 wards of New Orleans. [1] The ward is one of the city's Uptown wards, formerly the old Faubourg Lafayette annexed by New Orleans in the 1850s.
Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718–1819. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-1572330245. Jackson, Joy J. (1969). New Orleans in the Gilded Age: Politics and Urban Progress, 1880–1896. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. Leavitt, Mel (1982). A Short History of New ...
de Pauger's 1725 Plan of Mobile, Alabama. Adrien de Pauger (born ca. 1685 [1] or 1682, [2] died 9 June 1726) [3] was the French engineer and cartographer who designed the streets of the Vieux Carre, today known as the "French Quarter", and drew the original map of the city that became New Orleans, Louisiana.
Arabella Station, is a historic building on Magazine Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 4, 1996. It is now a Whole Foods for Uptown New Orleans. It has also been known as Arabella Carbarn and as Upper Magazine Station/Carbarn. It was a carbarn for storage and parking of streetcars.