The Seawall: Four Months of Construction, May 1931

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The wall consisted of 2 reinforced lines of concrete with a 15-foot gap between them.

Abe L. Shushan Collection, Earl K. Long Library

This file appears in: Creating Shushan Airport

By Teresa Thessen
All of the land now occupied by the Lakefront Airport was once marshland home to numerous fishing camps. In 1922, Abraham Shushan, President of the Board of Commissioners of the Orleans Levee…