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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. 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 ...

  5. Algiers, New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    504. Algiers ( / ælˈdʒɪərz /) is a historic neighborhood of New Orleans and is the only Orleans Parish community located on the West Bank of the Mississippi River. Algiers is known as the 15th Ward, one of the 17 Wards of New Orleans. [1] It was once home to many jazz musicians [2] [3] and is also the second oldest neighborhood in the city.

  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. Mississippi River - Wikipedia

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    The first steamboat to travel the full length of the Lower Mississippi from the Ohio River to New Orleans was the New Orleans in December 1811. Its maiden voyage occurred during the series of New Madrid earthquakes in 1811–12. The Upper Mississippi was treacherous, unpredictable and to make traveling worse, the area was not properly mapped ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. The Mississippi River is starving for rain. Its prospects are ...

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    The low water level of the Mississippi River is seen as people sit on steps that normally meet the river in the French Quarter of New Orleans on Sept. 25, 2023. - Gerald Herbert/AP

  10. Bywater, New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    Bywater is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.A subdistrict of the Bywater District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Florida Avenue to the north, the Industrial Canal to the east, the Mississippi River to the south, and the railroad tracks along Homer Plessy Way (formerly Press Street) to the west.

  11. Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville - Wikipedia

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    Father of New Orleans. Bienville wrote to the Directors of the Company in 1717 that he had discovered a crescent bend in the Mississippi River which he felt was safe from tidal surges and hurricanes and proposed that the new capital of the colony be built there. Permission was granted, and Bienville founded New Orleans in the spring of 1718 ...