Looking straight across the Olmstead lagoon.
This file appears in: From the Water's Edge: The 1884 Cotton Centennial Exposition
Straight ahead, the Cotton Centennial Exposition's Main Building loomed. In 1884, it was larger than any building in the world.
Image courtesy of Miki Pfeffer.
This file appears in: From the Water's Edge: The 1884 Cotton Centennial Exposition
From the Water's Edge: The 1884 Cotton Centennial Exposition
In the eighteenth century, working sugar plantations existed on this land. They faced the Mississippi River, which is straight ahead about a half mile. Pierre Foucher planted long alleys of live oak trees to frame his house. His neighbor Etienne de…