Canal Street Ferry House
This file appears in: Early Ferry Service across the Mississippi River
The City Council required a waiting area for vehicles and passengers, a clock posted conspicuously on the building, and a posted ferry schedule.
The day schedule used a first class steam transport capable of handling at least eight loaded double horse teams and vehicles plus passenger accommodations. Tug boats served at night.
Image, Leonard V. Huber Collection
This file appears in: Early Ferry Service across the Mississippi River
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…