New Orleans The greatest city in Louisiana.. New Orleans is located in southern Louisiana, near the...

New OrleansThe greatest city in Louisiana.

New Orleans is located in southern Louisiana, near the end of the Mississippi River.

New Orleans, on Lake Pontchartrain

Causeway, lake Pontchartrain, La, the longest bridge in the world.

Brown Pelican

Mississippi River

Early New Orleans

• Louisiana was first discovered by Spanish explorers Alvárez Piñeda in 1519, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1528, and once again by Hernando de Soto in 1541.

• New Orleans was founded by the French in 1718 as Nouvelle-Orléans and Louisiana became a French Colony.

• In 1763, Louisiana was returned to Spanish Rule.

History continued.

• Under Spanish rule, New Orleans suffered two disastrous fires.

• The first, the great New Orleans fire of 1788, destroyed 856 buildings on good Friday, March 21.

• The second destroyed 212 buildings in 1794.

Napoleon sold Louisiana to the United States in 1803 for 15 million dollars.

New Orleans

• New Orleans became a state in 1812.

• The battle of New Orleans, fought by Andrew Jackson and pirate Jean Lafitte, defeated the British forces on the Mississippi River.

Early New Orleans

• New Orleans was an agricultural state, farming mainly cotton and sugarcane.

• The Mississippi river made New Orleans the largest port in the United States.

New Orleans• Unfortunately, because of

the agriculture, New Orleans became the largest slave port in the US.

• The largest slave rebellion in US history took place in New Orleans. 125 slaves revolted. 2 white slave owners where killed, 95 slaves where hung or decapitated.

Pre-antebellum plantations

Oak Alley Plantation

The Myrtles Plantation, a haunted house

The ghost, “Cloe”, who was killed by her slave master.

New Orleans Architecture

The French Quarter, a famous part of New Orleans

The Cathedral in Jackson Square

French Opera House

Pat O'Briens, Bourbon Street in the French Quarter

Shotgun House

Creole Cottage

The Cabildo, the old Spanish town hall, the site of the Louisiana

Purchase

Tulane University

Loyola University

Xavier University, an all Black college

Bourbon Street, the craziest street in New Orleans

Me at the Bourbon Cowboy

Bourbon Street Awards

French Quarter outdoor flea Market

Lake Lawn cemetery

New Orleans Streetcar, or Trolley

Voodoo Religion

Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras Parades

Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras Indians

Mardi Gras High School Marching Band

Audubon Zoo

Albino Tiger

Albino Alligator

Albino Alligator

Audubon Aquarium

Aquarium Tunnel

Largest tank, 400.000 Liters

Alligator gar

Alligator gar

Paddlefish

Mississippi River Levees

Why Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans

New Orleans during Katrina

New Orleans Oil Production

Oil Platforms in Louisiana