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Bienville founded the City of New Orleans at the present site because of easy access to the Mississippi River from the Gulf of Mexico, the Rigolets, through Lake Pontchartrain and down Bayou St. John.
When he died in 1836 at age 94, Alexander Milne owned 22 miles of property along Lake Pontchartrain extending from Jefferson Parish all the way to the Rigolets.
The Pontchartrain Railroad was the second completed railroad in the United States when it began operation in 1831. It traveled from the Mississippi River at Elysian Fields Avenue to the lakefront at Milneburg. The famous Smokey Mary was placed on the line in in 1870.
The original wooden Bayou St. John lighthouse was the first built by the U.S. Government outside the original 13 colonies. It was destroyed in an 1837 Hurricane.
The St. Charles Avenue Streetcar Line is the oldest surviving interurban-urban passenger rail transportation system in the United States. Originally incorporated as the New Orleans Carrollton Rail Road in 1833, service began in 1835.
Builders of the New Basin Canal, which connected the downtown American sector of New Orleans with Lake Pontchartrain, preferred to hire Irishmen because the work was dangerous, and they did not want their valuable slaves injured or killed.
Bruning's Restaurant first opened in 1859, making it one of the oldest (though its run has not been continuous) restaurants in the United States as well as the second oldest still in operation (until Hurricane Katrina) in the city of New Orleans -- Antoine's is the oldest.
Founded in 1849, the Southern Yatch club, the second oldest in the United States.
During the Civil War private boats and yachts were seized by both the Confederacy and the Union. A submarine (one of the first) was built along Bayou St. John.
The man-made land at West End was under construction beginning in 1871 and fully developed by 1880.
"We had dinner on a ground-veranda over the water--the chief dish the renowned fish called the pompano, delicious as the less criminal forms of sin." ~~ Mark Twain describing his meal at West End in Life on the Mississippi (1874).
Before 1900, Spanish Fort was especially famous for its opera house and fine seafood restaurants. By the 1930s all amusements were removed during the land reclamation project which resulted in residential property and Lakeshore Drive.
The first movie in New Orleans was shown on an outdoor screen on the lakefront June 28, 1896,
According to Carl Arredondo, in a 1893 Hurricane where 2000 people died in a 15 foot storm surge, 200 survivors sought refuge at the Port Pontchartrain (Milneburg) lighthouse, and its female lightkeeper was publicly recognized for caring for them.
"One afternoon he took her out to the lake end...The large expanse of water studded with pleasure-boats, the sight of children playing merrily along the grassy palisades, the music, all enchanted her." ~~ Kate Chopin, A Night in Acadie (1897)
"Now, a picnic at Milneburg is a thing to be remembered for ever. One charters a rickety-looking, weather-beaten dancing-pavilion, built over the water...the young folks go up-stairs and dance to the tune of the best band you ever heard...Then one can fish in the lake and go bathing under the prim bath-houses...and go rowing on the lake in a trim boat". ~~ Alice Dunbar, The Goodness of St. Rocque (1899).
The Greater New Orleans Chapter of the Project Management Institute presented its 2008 Project of the Year Award to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Division. "The award was presented to the corps for its Hurricane Katrina emergency response mission," according to a press release.
