Oyster Shell Fill

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This is a closer perspective of the oyster shell fill, which helped with drainage. The shells were dredged from the bottom of Lake Pontchartrain.

Abe L. Shushan Collection, Earl K. Long Library

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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…