1759 Map of the Portage

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1759 Map of the Portage

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Introduction

Pre History

1699 Exploration

1701 Fort St. John

1703 Trappers on the Bayou

1718 New Orleans is Founded

1722

1732 Native Americans

1735 Native Americans

1742

1759 Map of the Portage

1763 Spanish Rule

1768 Map of the Water Route

1770 Spanish Fort Postcards

1778 Hurricanes

1779 Spanish Rebuild the Fort

1780 Hurricane

1784 Custom House

1795 Carondelet Canal

1803 Madisonville

1808 U.S. Restores the Fort

1811 Bayou St. John Light

1803 Louisiana Purchase

1814 Madisonville

1815 Steamboat Travel Begins

1815

1816 Bayou St. John a Port

1820's Concert Hall & Garden at Spanish Fort

1823 Spanish Fort on the Bayou

1837 Hurricane Destroys the Bayou St. John

1838 New Canal Light

1841

1830 Pontchartrain Railroad

1868 Submarine Find

1868 receipts for the Jewess and Frances

1831 New Basin Canal

1832 Port Ponchartrain/Milneburg Light

1838 Port Ponchartrain Surveyer

1838 New Canal/West End Light

1839 Milneburg

1839 Milneburg

1839 Pontchartrain Railroad

1840 By 1840, New Orleans had become by far the wealthiest and was ranked as the third most populous

1849 Southern Yach Club

1849 Southern Yacht Club

1850 Louisville & Nashville Railroad

1850 West End, Lakeport, Bucktown

1852 Uncle Tom's Cabin

1858 Harper's Magazine

1859 Bruning's

1859 Corpheous

1860's Hurricanes

1861 Most citizens have access to the Lake

1861Bayou St. John's Port, Lake Port (West End), and Port Pontchartrain (Milneburg Port)

1861 CSS CARONDELET

1863 Madisonville

1863 Woodcut Civil War engraving

1863 - CLARIMONDE

1863 Civil War Military Map

1865 - Civil War Order

1865 ? BAYOU ST. JOHN

1866 - The Little Blue Train

1870 Milneburg Port declines but Jazz flourishes

1870 The Smoky Mary begins

1870 West End

1870 The Lake House is destroyed in a fire

1871 Land is reclaimed at West End

1873 - Plan plan for the redevelopment of the south shore

1873 Spanish Fort

1874 Mark Twain writes about Spanish Fort in Life on the Mississippi

1874 Mark Twain writes about West End in Life on the Mississippi

1875 Rowles Stereograph Photograph titled 'Protection levee Lake Pontchartrain'

1879 Illustration from The Nathanial Bishop book

1880 Smokey Mary

1880 - Alligators at Spanish Fort

1880 - Casino at Spanish Fort

1880 - Opera House at West End

1880 Fountain West End

1880 Hotel West End

1880 West End Pavillion

1880s - Water Polo at West End

1880s Bird's Eye View- New Basin Canal at West End

1880s Bridge over New Basin Canal at West End

1880s Pavilion at West End

1880s Spanish Fort at Bayou St. John

1883 Point-aux-Herbes

1884 - Concert Hall at Spanish Fort

1888 (Papa) Jack Laine forms his first brass band

1890 - 1920 Buddy Bolden's Band plays

1890 Ferdinand (Jelly Roll) Morton is born

1890's West End Garden Amusement Park

1890s - Spanish Fort Train

1890s Ferris Wheel at West End

1890s view of Bayou St. John

1890's Bucktown

Lake Pontchartrain at West End

1891 Painting-the Lake and Milneburg

1893 Woman Lighthouse keeper at Milneburg shelters storm victims

1894 - La Belle Zoraide by Kate Chopin

1894 - A LADY OF BAYOU ST. JOHN

1895 Lumber Schooner, New Basin Canal

1896 - The first movie in New Orleans was shown at the Lake

1897 - A Night in Acadie by Kate Chopin

1897 - Athénaïse by Kate Chopin

1899 - The Goodness of St. Rocque by Alice Dunbar

1895 Cape Charles Car and Passenger Ferry

1900's Milneburg Walk

1910 Bayou St. John Sailor Girl

1919 Spanish Fort Ad

1929 Port Pontchartrain/Milneburg Light decommissioned

1960s Kiddieland

August 2005

1. Bayou St. John

2. Milneburg/Pontchartain Beach

Military Installments

Shushan Airport

3. Hayne Blvd. and Beyond

Lincoln Beach

Chef Pass/Fort McComb

Fort Pike & The Rigolets

"Pointe Aux Herbes"

4. Northshore -- Fontainbleau, etc.

Madisonville

5. Western Shores -- Pass Manchac

The German Coast

6. Engineering Marvels -- Spillway

7. Bucktown

8. west end

General Area

Lighthouses

1759 map with road to Bayou St. John (and then to the Lake).

The Lake