Across the Olmstead lagoon
This file appears in: From the Water's Edge: The 1884 Cotton Centennial Exposition
Beyond this spot stood the Government and States Building of the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition in 1884.
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…