A 1916 photo of the Half-way House on the New Basin Canal.

ID: 6309 ~ Source: New Basin Canal (Half-way House), 1916, The Historic New Orleans, Permanent Collection, http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/1/28856.

This file appears in: Streets on the Table Episode 5: Charles McKenna

This file appears in: Streets on the Table Episode 5: Charles McKenna

Streets on the Table Episode 5: Charles McKenna

By Public history graduate students at the University of New Orleans

In 2019, the New Orleans City Council launched a city-wide effort to change the names of streets honoring white supremacists. While the city implemented its renaming efforts, a clear need for an…