City Park in 1883
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This 1880s depiction provides an overlay of the planned but undeveloped streets surrounding City Park. Like the park itself, the adjacent neighborhoods would develop later. Also, Bayou Metairie is still rendered as flowing into Bayou St. John. It has yet to be turned into the park's lagoon.
Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
This file appears in: Origins of New Orleans City Park
Origins of New Orleans City Park
Before the French colonized Louisiana, Native Americans lived on the land that is now City Park. Bayou St. John, which runs through the park today, was part of a trade route commonly used by the…