1883 NEW ORLEANS Louisiana FAUBORG STE. MARIE History

ORIGINAL 15-page ARTICLE   -  NOT A COPY - from Early Magazine  -  1883

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THE GREAT SOUTH GATE   ***   by George W. Cable

Very interesting, informative Early Article - filled with historic facts, details and descriptions - accompanied by wonderful early illustrations - making it a rare and valuable piece of NEW ORLEANS HISTORY - History of the FAUBORG STE. MARIE - the changes and development in NEW ORLEANS during this era............great research tool as well.

The ILLUSTRATIONS include:

ENTRANCE to a COTTON YARD - shown here

The OLD LEVEE COTTON PRESS

The Old Bank in TOULOUSE STREET - shown here

Old "Passage De La Bourse" - (Exchange Alley and State House)

etc.etc.etc.

".....COMMON STREET marks the ancient boundary, of the estates wrested from the exiled Jesuit fathers by confiscation...In the beginning of the present century, the long wedge shaped tract between these two lines was a Government reservation, kept for the better efficiency of the fortifications that overlooked its lower border and for a public road to Noman's land...It was called the "Terre Commune"...."

"..In the opening years of the century only an occasional villa and an isolated roadside shop or two had arisen along the front of Faubourg Ste. Marie and in the first street behind...."

"..The present site of the "St. Charles" was a cabbage garden...Midway between Poydras and Girod streets, behind Magazine, lay a 'campo de negroes' a slave camp, probably of cargoes of Guinea slaves.....The street that cut through it became Calle del Campo - Camp Street..."

"...The kitchen gardens vanished...Gravier Street, between Tchoupitoulas and Magazine, was paved with cobble stones...The Creoles laughted outright..."A Stone pavement in New Orelans soil?..It would sink out of sight!"........"

"...Another city had sprung up on the city's upper boundary..In 1833, three suburbs, Lafayette, Livaudais and Religeuses, the last occupying an old plantation of the Ursuline nuns, combined into a town......"

"..The first street pavement of square granite blocks was laid....Wharf building set in strongly....The wires of the electro-magnetic telegraph drew the city into closer connection with civilization...."

"..The American quarter became the center and core of the whole city..Its new and excessively classic marble municipality hall became the city hall....Its public grounds became the chosen rendezvous of all popular assemblies...."

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