Excerpt of New Orleans East Topographical Map of the Lower Ninth Ward
This file appears in: The Lower Ninth Ward: Community and Placemaking
The “star” represents the Lamanche Street Locus and has been added. Notice the increase of churches, parks, and development in general in just fifteen years.
This file appears in: The Lower Ninth Ward: Community and Placemaking
The Lower Ninth Ward: Community and Placemaking
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…