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Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans and environs; with map. Illustrated with many original engravings; and containing exhaustive accounts ... and remarkable localities of the Creole city
William Head Coleman
Paperback. TheClassics.us 2013-09-12.
ISBN 9781230423128
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI.--THE STREETS. STREET NOMENCLATURE OF NEW ORLEANS--THE HISTORY HIDDEN IN THE STREET NAMES--DUPLICATE AND TRIPLICATE NAMES TO CONFUSE A STRANGER--A FULL STREET GUIDE OF THE CITY. Oakey Hall, in his book, "The Manhattanerin New Orleans, " goes wild over the nomenclature of the streets of the Crescent City, which he declares are the prettiest named of any in the Union. He is undoubtedly right in this. New Orleans, alone of American cities, has preserved all the romance of its earlier days in the titles of its streets, and with a simple directory one can recall the entire history of the French and Spanish dominion. Having changed its ownership no less than five times, having passed under so many masters, having witnessed such vicissitudes of fortune, New Orleans has a history full of incident and romance, and this it tells in its street nomenclature. The old carre or parallelogram of the original city still preserves the names given by Le Blond de la Tour, who laid it out. There have been few changes here. The rue de l'Arsenal, Arsenal street, has given way to the rue des Ursulines, named in honor of the Ursuline nuns, who erected their convent here a century and a half ago. The rue des Quartiers, Barracks street, and the rue de 1' Hopital, Hospital street, are titles given to unnamed streets, because the government barracks and hospital were erected on them. Similarly the rue de la Douane, or Customhouse street, received its title, not from the massive granite customhouse that now stands there, but from the old wooden building, devoted to the same purpose, erected by the Spaniards a century and a quarter before. The boundary streets of the city, which marked the line of the old wall, all bear military titles referring to the old
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Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans and environs; with map. Illustrated with many original engravings; and containing exhaustive accounts ... and remarkable localities of the Creole city
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