Main Building, World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition
This file appears in: From the Water's Edge: The 1884 Cotton Centennial Exposition
Image courtesy of Ken Speth. Private collection.
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…