New Orleans 1849 Map Sauve Crevasse

ID: 6149 ~ Source: WikiCommons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_Orleans_1849_map_Sauve_Crevasse_flood.jpg. ~ Creator: Von Reizenstein ~ Date: 1849

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Map of New Orleans and Jefferson Parish Eastbank, showing flooding from Sauve Crevasse (breach of the Mississippi River levee) in May of 1849. Includes the Foucher Plantation track of land.

This file appears in: Audubon Park’s Enslavement History

Audubon Park’s Enslavement History

By Taylor Lindner, edited by Kalie A. Dutra & Kathryn O'Dwyer

Today, Audubon Park is a space dedicated to leisure in New Orleans. Every day, hundreds of New Orleans tourists and locals enjoy the public jogging path, lagoons, picnic shelters, golf course,…