Fishing Camps

ID: 2228
This file appears in: Creating Shushan Airport

The Lakefront Airport site hosted shrimp and crab fishermen until the 1920s, provided they had permits. To make room for the airport, the Orleans Levee Board revoked the permits; the fishermen unsuccessfully fought their removal for three years, after which the construction started.

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…