Reclaimed Land Saved the Orleans Levee Board $3 Million

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This file appears in: Creating Shushan Airport

After completing the seawall, the dredging crew raised the lake bottom with hydraulic fill. This lake location would not impede city development and accommodated land and sea planes.

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…