Before I-10, the New Basin Canal flowed through New Orleans
WEBNov 1, 2019 — Named the New Orleans Canal and Banking Company, the corporate charter called for a 60-foot-wide channel at least six feet deep, lined with levees, paralleled with a toll road and tow path, with a turning basin in the city and a harbor at the lake.
Before the Pontchartrain Expressway: Last days of the New Basin Canal
WEBJun 6, 2024 — Some people called it the Basin Canal or the New Orleans Canal, but most called it the “New” Basin Canal, to distinguish its superior services from the circa-1794 Carondelet Canal, now dubbed the Old Basin Canal.
1832-1950s - New Basin Canal - Pontchartrain
WEBThe New Basin Canal, which terminated near the present-day site of the Union Passenger Terminal and followed the route now taken by the Pontchartrain Expressway, served as the city's link to the Lake from the 1830s until the 1950s.
New Basin Canal - Wikipedia
WEBNew Basin Canal. Coordinates: 29°57′28″N 90°05′40″W. New Canal Lighthouse. The New Basin Canal, also known as the New Canal and the New Orleans Canal, was a shipping canal in New Orleans, Louisiana, operating from 1830s into the 1940s.
Old NOLA Journal: The New Basin Canal, 1832 - 1838 - Blogger
WEBJul 3, 2012 — The New Basin Canal, 1832 - 1838. Celtic Cross monument for the Irish workers. Between 1832 and 1838 thousands of Irish immigrants died in the swamps north of Old New Orleans.
Category:New Basin Canal - Wikimedia Commons
WEBHelp. Category:New Basin Canal. From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. w:New Basin Canal, a historic canal in New Orleans, Louisiana. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. Black Bridge, New Orleans (5 F) New Canal Light (50 F) Media in category "New Basin Canal"
West End and Bucktown After Katrina - PBase.com
WEBThe day after Hurricane Katrina the floodwall on the 17th Street Canal broke and sent billions of gallons of water fed into Lake Pontchartrain from the Gulf of Mexico into New Orleans, creating a nightmare that will go on for years.
West End -- The Front - Dan Ellis
WEBThe City of New Orleans constructed the harbor and railroad and streetcar facilities along the New Basin Canal and by 1921 had constructed a seawall 500 feet out into the lake and filled in this space to create the large oak lined West End Park.
1831 New Basin Canal - New Orleans Past
WEBWell into the 20th century schooners brought lumber, watermelons, charcoal, sand, and bricks from across Lake Pontchartrain into the heart of New Orleans by way of the New Basin Canal. Dug by hand, between 1831 and 1835, through the swamps that lay back of the city, the canal was sixty feet wide and six feet deep and almost seven miles long.
NO_West_End - Old New Orleans
WEBThe New Basin Canal, also, known as the New Canal, was dug as a shipping channel from the lake to the center of New Orleans in the 1830's, mainly by Irish immigrants.
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