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  2. Crescent City Connection - Wikipedia

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    US 90 Bus. / I-910 (unsigned) / Future I-49. The Crescent City Connection ( CCC ), formerly the Greater New Orleans (GNO) Bridge, is a pair of cantilever bridges that carry U.S. Highway 90 Business (US 90 Bus.) over the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. They are tied as the fifth-longest cantilever bridges in the world.

  3. Algiers Point - Wikipedia

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    Algiers Point. /  29.95528°N 90.05528°W  / 29.95528; -90.05528. Algiers Point is a location on the Lower Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana. In river pilotage, Algiers Point is one of the many points of land around which the river flows—albeit a significant one. Since the 1970s, the name Algiers Point has also referred to the ...

  4. May 1995 Louisiana flood - Wikipedia

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    The May 1995 Louisiana flood, also known as the May 1995 Southeast Louisiana and Southern Mississippi Flood, was a heavy rainfall event which occurred across an area stretching from the New Orleans metropolitan area into southern Mississippi. A storm total rainfall maximum of 27.5 inches (700 mm) was recorded near Necaise, Mississippi. [1]

  5. Mississippi River–Gulf Outlet Canal - Wikipedia

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    The Mississippi River–Gulf Outlet Canal (abbreviated as MRGO or MR-GO) is a 76 mi (122 km) channel constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers at the direction of Congress in the mid-20th century that provided a shorter route between the Gulf of Mexico and New Orleans ' inner harbor Industrial Canal via the Intracoastal Waterway ...

  6. Huey P. Long Bridge (Jefferson Parish) - Wikipedia

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    The Huey P. Long Bridge, [5] located in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, is a cantilevered steel through-truss bridge that carries a two-track railroad line over the Mississippi River at mile 106.1, with three lanes of US 90 on each side of the central tracks. It is several kilometers upriver from the city of New Orleans.

  7. Pilottown, Louisiana - Wikipedia

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    Pilottown is built on piers in swampy ground on the East Bank of the lower Mississippi River, about 85 miles (137 km) downriver from New Orleans (65 miles or 105 kilometres) and about 10 miles (16 km) south of Venice, Louisiana. Pilottown is located a few miles above Head of Passes, the point considered to be the mouth of the Mississippi River.

  8. List of crossings of the Lower Mississippi River - Wikipedia

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    Memphis and West Memphis. 1973. 35°09′10″N 90°03′50″W. /  35.15278°N 90.06389°W  / 35.15278; -90.06389  ( Hernando de Soto Bridge) Harahan Bridge. Union Pacific Railroad, Big River Crossing Bike/Pedestrian Trail.

  9. English Turn - Wikipedia

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    English Turn is a bend in the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana. Etymology. In 1699, French explorers Sauvolle and Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville were exploring the lower Mississippi and encountered English ships. Bienville was successful in ordering the English out of the river, and the event left the name, English Turn, on the ...

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