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The Bayou St. John, a still narrow waterway bordering City Park on the east and extending about 7 miles from Lake Pontchartrain to just past Orleans Avenue, is the only remaining bayou in New Orleans. Navigable by canoes and small vessels, Native Americans were using the bayou, which they knew as Bayouk Choupic, since pre-Columbian times. The first European settlers in the area, believed to have been trappers, coexisted with Native Americans in the early 18th century. It is named after John the Baptist, whose nativity (St. John's Eve, every June 23), the most important day in the year for voodoo practitioners, was celebrated on the bayou's banks in the 1800's.

The bayou, in its natural state, extended much further than today. Over time, it helped drain a good portion of present day New Orleans' swampy land into Lake Pontchartrain. Colonial era and early 19th century maps show it had tributaries reaching into the Broadmoor neighborhood, the New Orleans Central Business District just back from St. Charles Avenue above Lee Circle, the Carrollton neighborhood, the Treme neighborhood, and a branch connecting to Bayou Gentilly.

A portage between the Bayou and the Mississippi attracted the earliest American settlers, who in 1701 built Fort St. Jean, or as it would later come to be known, the Old Spanish Fort, to protect the route. In colonial times, the portage trail became Grand Route St. John, and later replaced by Esplanade Avenue. The Carondelet Canal was dug to connect the back of the city along the River with the Bayou, and the Bayou dredged to accommodate larger vessels. In the early 20th century, when commercial use, the Carondelet Canal was filled in.

Tags:   Bayou St. John bayou mid-city New Orleans Louisiana Orleans Parish NOLA Orleans County bayouk choupic bayou choupic

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The General Beauregard Equestrian Statue, standing within a circular plot situated at the foot of Esplanade Avenue between Bayou St. John and the entrance to New Orleans City Park, was built in stages, with the base being dedicated on May 28, 1913 and the statue on November 11, 1915. Alexander Boyle's bronze statue depicts the Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard astride a prancing horse. The entire ensemble stands a total of 27 feet in height. The dark gray granite base is 10 feet tall, rising from a one-foot foundation. The statue is 16 feet tall.

The statue is one of three in New Orleans--the other two being the Robert E. Lee Monument and the Jefferson Davis Monument--to represent the Cult of the Lost Cause. Although Robert E. Lee was the centerpiece of the cult, another integral component was theveneration of other Civil War generals.

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893), was a Louisiana-born general for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Known as the "Napoleon in Gray," he was also an author, civil servant, politician, and inventor. Beauregard was the first prominent Confederate general. He commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, for the Battle of Fort Sumter in 1861, and three months later was the victor at the First Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia. He also commanded armies in the Western Theater, including the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, and the Siege of Corinth in northern Mississippi. His arguably greatest achievement was saving the city of Petersburg, Virginia, and thus also the Confederate capital of Richmond from assaults by overwhelmingly superior Union Army forces in June 1864. However, his influence over Confederate strategy was marred by his poor professional relationships with President Jefferson Davis and other senior generals and officials. Today he is commonly referred to as P.G.T. Beauregard, but during the war he rarely used his first name and signed correspondence as G.T. Beauregard.

City Park, a 1,300 acre public park, is one of the largest and most visited urban parks in the United States. Established on the former site of Allard Plantation facing Bayou St. John along the remains of Bayou Metairie in 1853, it is also one of the oldest parks in the country. In the early 20th century, the City Park Improvement Association built many of the park's landmarks like the Casino, the Peristyle, Popp Bandstand, Lelong Drive and the Issac Delgado Museum of Art, and expanded the park's boundaries through land acquisitions. In the 1930s a master plan, by Bennett, Parsons & Frost of Chicago, guided developed of the enlarged space with the aid of federal relief agencies, such as the Works Progress Administration. Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage to the park in 2005, flooding it with anywhere from 1-foot to 1-feet of water that remained for two to four works, damaging building and toppling over 1,000 trees. A new master plan was conceived following Katrina to rebuild and renovate.

National Register #99000233 (1999)

Tags:   New Orleans Louisiana Orleans Parish NOLA Orleans County city park alexander boyle statue sculpture pierre gustave toutant beauregard General Beauregard P.G.T. Beauregard General P.G.T. Beauregard equestrian equestrian statue lakeview confederate monument

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The General Beauregard Equestrian Statue, standing within a circular plot situated at the foot of Esplanade Avenue between Bayou St. John and the entrance to New Orleans City Park, was built in stages, with the base being dedicated on May 28, 1913 and the statue on November 11, 1915. Alexander Boyle's bronze statue depicts the Confederate General P. G. T. Beauregard astride a prancing horse. The entire ensemble stands a total of 27 feet in height. The dark gray granite base is 10 feet tall, rising from a one-foot foundation. The statue is 16 feet tall.

The statue is one of three in New Orleans--the other two being the Robert E. Lee Monument and the Jefferson Davis Monument--to represent the Cult of the Lost Cause. Although Robert E. Lee was the centerpiece of the cult, another integral component was theveneration of other Civil War generals.

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (May 28, 1818 – February 20, 1893), was a Louisiana-born general for the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Known as the "Napoleon in Gray," he was also an author, civil servant, politician, and inventor. Beauregard was the first prominent Confederate general. He commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, for the Battle of Fort Sumter in 1861, and three months later was the victor at the First Battle of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia. He also commanded armies in the Western Theater, including the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, and the Siege of Corinth in northern Mississippi. His arguably greatest achievement was saving the city of Petersburg, Virginia, and thus also the Confederate capital of Richmond from assaults by overwhelmingly superior Union Army forces in June 1864. However, his influence over Confederate strategy was marred by his poor professional relationships with President Jefferson Davis and other senior generals and officials. Today he is commonly referred to as P.G.T. Beauregard, but during the war he rarely used his first name and signed correspondence as G.T. Beauregard.

City Park, a 1,300 acre public park, is one of the largest and most visited urban parks in the United States. Established on the former site of Allard Plantation facing Bayou St. John along the remains of Bayou Metairie in 1853, it is also one of the oldest parks in the country. In the early 20th century, the City Park Improvement Association built many of the park's landmarks like the Casino, the Peristyle, Popp Bandstand, Lelong Drive and the Issac Delgado Museum of Art, and expanded the park's boundaries through land acquisitions. In the 1930s a master plan, by Bennett, Parsons & Frost of Chicago, guided developed of the enlarged space with the aid of federal relief agencies, such as the Works Progress Administration. Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage to the park in 2005, flooding it with anywhere from 1-foot to 1-feet of water that remained for two to four works, damaging building and toppling over 1,000 trees. A new master plan was conceived following Katrina to rebuild and renovate.

National Register #99000233 (1999)

Tags:   New Orleans Louisiana Orleans Parish NOLA Orleans County city park alexander boyle statue sculpture pierre gustave toutant beauregard General Beauregard P.G.T. Beauregard General P.G.T. Beauregard equestrian equestrian statue lakeview

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Tags:   St. Louis Cemetery cemetery St. Louis Cemetery #3 St. Louis Cemetery No. 3 St. Louis Cemetery Number Three New Orleans Louisiana Orleans Parish NOLA Orleans County midcity veterans memorial american veterans memorial memorial plaque Fairgrounds

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The Edgar Degas House, located at 2306 Esplanade Avenue, was originally built in 1852 by architect and developer, Benjamin Rodriguez, and builder William Belly. Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas, the French Impressionist master whose mother and grandmother were both New Orleans natives, painted many famous subjects here while visiting his uncle, Michael Musson, from October 1872 to March 1873. The Cotton Buyer's Office (1873) shows his uncle with several family members, including his brothers Rene and Achille, who both worked in the cotton business. The cast-ironed balconied Greek revival Espalanade house is the only residence or studio associated with Degas anywhere in the world that is open to the public.

Tags:   Edgar Germain Hilaire Degas House Degas House Edgar Degas House Edgar Degas House Historic Home, Courtyard & Inn‎ italianate b&b bed and breakfast inn bed & breakfast hotel mid-city new orleans nola lousiana orleans parish orleans county esplanade ridge esplanade william belly benjamin rodriguez musson house treme Tremé Faubourg Tremé


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