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4 days ago · A hundred years ago, the area around the 2400 block of Lamanche Street was occupied by the Temple of the Innocent Blood, a spiritism church that was created and run by Mother Catherine Seals. From 1922 until her death in 1930, Mother Catherine maintained what has been described as a “Bethlehem” in the Lower Ninth Ward. The location for the church was intentional. At the time, this area of ...
4 days ago · Pop. (2010) 343,829; New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner Metro Area, 1,167,764; (2020) 383,997; New Orleans–Metairie Metro Area, 1,271,845. Landscape City layout. The city of New Orleans and Orleans parish (county) are coextensive, occupying a point at the head of the Mississippi River delta at the Gulf of Mexico.
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16 hours ago · The Battle of New Orleans was fought on January 8, 1815, between the British Army under Major General Sir Edward Pakenham and the United States Army under Brevet Major General Andrew Jackson, roughly 5 miles (8 km) southeast of the French Quarter of New Orleans, in the current suburb of Chalmette, Louisiana.
- January 8, 1815
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3 days ago · When the Works Progress Administration (WPA) came to New Orleans in 1939, paving roads in Gentilly ranked high on the project list. WPA created the grid of Gentilly streets as we know them in 1939-1940. Elysian Fields Avenue linked Gentilly Road to the new bath house facility built at Milneburg.
5 days ago · When Europeans arrived in the area that is now Louisiana there were societies comprised of thousands of people that had been living here for over 10,000 years. Poverty Point National Monument in West Carroll Parish preserves the remains of a community that was part of a large trade network with impressive engineering skills. This community ...
16 hours ago · When it comes to rooting out roosting ravens, never say "nevermore."So quoth the residents of a formerly quiet street in the east Ottawa suburb of Orléans where people have become captivated by a ...
