Before the Levees Broke

ID: 1030
This file appears in: Lower Ninth Ward Levee Breaches in 2005

This winter photo taken March of 2005 shows a home four blocks from the southeast breach of the Lower Ninth Ward. This is how the neighborhood once appeared. Address: 1825 Forstall Street. Note tidy yards and mature pecan tree. Photo/Roy Arrigo

This file appears in: Lower Ninth Ward Levee Breaches in 2005

By Levees.org
Pre-Katrina, the area immediately in front of the east breaches of the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal (a.k.a. the Industrial Canal) was a dense, thriving neighborhood of primarily African American…