Ferry Terminal, upriver from steamboat wharf
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The skiff ferry terminal was located near the tip of the arrow in this map. First Street is now St. Charles Avenue. Originally named Nayades, the street alongside the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad tracks changed names at Lowerline, the downriver boundary of Carrollton.
This file appears in: Carrollton's First Ferry
Carrollton's First Ferry
Earliest ferry service from Carrollton across the Mississippi River to the West Bank area known as Nine Mile Point was operating by 1845. Rowers powered these skiff ferries. In the mid- and late…