Daily Picayune, 22 April 1883.

ID: 6397 ~ Source: Courtesy of New Orleans Public Library

This file appears in: The Gex Pottery Site at the Lafitte Housing Project

Historical newspaper headline for "Porcelain Works". The text reads "Interesting Exhibition of the Manufacture of China Ware in this City. Rich Native Resources Demonstrated."

Lucien M. Gex had been the superintendent of another pottery called the “Porcelain Works Factory” further up Carondelet Walk, addressed at 353 Carondelet Walk.

This file appears in: The Gex Pottery Site at the Lafitte Housing Project

The Gex Pottery Site at the Lafitte Housing Project

By By Elizabeth Williams

In 2009-2010, archaeologists from ESI excavated the remains of a pottery from one of the blocks during the Lafitte Housing Complex renovation along what used to have been the Carondelet “Old Basin”…