New Orleans Survey of 1898

ID: 6416 ~ Source: Courtesy of the Historic New Orleans Collection ~ Date: 1949

This file appears in: Community and Placemaking in the Lower Ninth Ward

A survey of New Orleans from 1898; the map include the newly developed streetcar lines just operational at the time, a few of which extended into the present day Lower Ninth Ward via St. Claude Avenue.

This file appears in: Community and Placemaking in the Lower Ninth Ward

Community and Placemaking in the Lower Ninth Ward

By By Elena Ricci, edited by Elizabeth Williams

A hundred years ago, the area around the 2400 block of Lamanche Street was occupied by the Temple of the Innocent Blood, a spiritism church that was created and run by Mother Catherine Seals. From 1922 until her death in 1930, Mother Catherine…