Algiers Point ferry landing, circa 1980s
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A short-lived restaurant known as Algiers Landing is visible at the tip of Algiers Point (left). The State of Louisiana now operates both the Mississippi River Bridge and the ferries in the Greater New Orleans area.
Image courtesy family of Richard R. Dixon and Friends of the Ferry
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Early Ferry Service across the Mississippi River
Since the founding of New Orleans in 1718, the Mississippi River proved crucial in the city's development as a colonial French and Spanish port. Crossing the river was essential from the outset. The first enslaved Africans brought to the colony…