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NEW ORLEANS From Bienville to Bourbon Street to bounce. 300 moments that make New Orleans unique. WHAT HAPPENED Construction 1718 ~ 2018 of the Carondelet Canal began in 300 June 1794. TRICENTENNIAL THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION New Basin Canal in 1915, looking south from Lake Pontchartrain with The Zulu King used to arrive downtown by West End Park on the right. barge on the New Basin Canal on Mardi Gras. Vestiges of the Old Basin and New Basin canals can still be found around New Orleans: The red-roofed New Canal lighthouse on Lake Pontchartrain; a small canal behind a Broad Street pump station; and the canal’s namesake streets — Oyster luggers in the Carondelet Canal in 1891 A remnant of the Carondelet Canal Canal and Basin. at Broad and St. Louis streets The canals were commercially important to the city. Mules pulled barges full of cotton, cypress trees, bricks and people through the city for 154 years. The canals allowed easier trade from areas east of New Orleans, including Biloxi and Mobile The Carondelet, or Old Basin, Canal was dedicated in July 1796 and ran from Bayou St. John to the turning basin at the head at what is now Basin Street near St. Peter Street, near Congo Square. The canal quickly fell into disrepair but Mayor James Pi- tot had the canal dredged, and it was re- opened in 1817. The Lafitte Greenway now occupies some of the space that was left behind when the canal was filled in 1938. The canal was undermined by compe- tition from the New Basin Canal, which traversed a route starting at the Lake A portion of the New Basin Canal is still THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION Pontchartrain lighthouse to what is now used as the New Orleans marina. West End Boulevard and the Pontchartrain Expressway before ending at Rampart Street and Howard Avenue. The New Basin canal was opened in 1838 and was filled in about 1950 after the Industrial Canal, which started operating in 1923, made it obsolete. The Carondelet Canal was originally intended to connect to the river at Canal Street, a feat that wasn’t possible without locks..

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