Norman's New Orleans and Environs: Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present TimeNorman, Benjamin Moore
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Norman's New Orleans and Environs: Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
Norman, Benjamin Moore
New Orleans (La.) -- Guidebooks
Miles.
Tennessee River, 1085 |
Petersville, Tenn., 71 | 1156
Reynoldsburg, 36 | 1192
Perryville, 42 | 1234
Carrollville, 27 | 1261
Coffee, 26 | 1287
Savannah, 9 | 1296
Waterloo, 25 | 1321
Bear Creek, 12 | 1333
Colbert's Ferry, Tenn., 14 | 1347
Florence, Al., 24 | 1371
GENERAL INDEX
Academies for Females, 44
Algiers, a description of, 194
Alligators, killed for their skins, 42
American Theatre, erected in 1823, 67
description of, 180
Amusements, 176
Ancient Settlements supposed to have existed, 11
Anecdote of an old Frenchman, 68
early cotton growing, 47
Annunciation Square, 183
Church, 100
Armories, 149
Association, Young Men's Howard, 115
Associations for charitable and other purposes, 110
Asylums of New Orleans, their excellence, ib.
Asylum, Catholic Male Orphan, 114
Female do, 110
Male do, 113
Milne do, 116
Poydras Female do, 113
Les dames de la Providence, 114
Attakapas Prairie, 38
Parish, 39
produces abundance of live oak, 33
Atchafalaya lands, 34
Bank of Louisiana, 155
Louisiana State, 153
Canal, 155
City, 154
Mechanics' and Traders', 153
Gas, 154
Banks' Arcade, 156
Bard, Captain, Return of, 16
Bar of New Orleans, 79
Barracks, the United States, 86
Baton Rouge taken, 24
Battle Ground, 196
Bayou St. John Road, 194
Beautiful land bordering the Teche, 33
Bellevue Prairie, 40
Benevolent Society, Hebrew, 116
Best lands, 31
Bienville, made governor, 17
is superseded in 1710, ib.
deceives the English captain, 16
is reappointed governor in 1717, 17
founds New Orleans, 1718, 18
sails for France in 1727, 20
is succeeded by Perrier, ib.
governor for the third time, ib.
resigns in 1741, ib.
Biloxi settled by Iberville, 16
Board of Health established in 1841, 71
Boatmen of the Mississippi, 75
Bottom lands, their luxuriance, 30
Boundaries of the State of Louisiana, 28
Territory of Louisiana, 7
Branch Mint of the United States, 88
Branch Bank of the United States, established 1805, 66
Breed of cattle improving, 56
Bricks, why they are not well made, 57
Buildings, the public, 86
Burr, Aaron, 26
Business season, appearance of the levee in the, 81
Calcasieu prairie, 40
Caldwell, James H., his great enterprise, 67
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