Close up of "Plan of the City of New Orleans and Adjacent Plantations."

ID: 5059 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. ~ Creator: Alexander Debrunner, Charles Laveau Trudeau. ~ Date: 1875 copy of 1798 map.

This file appears in: Origins of New Orleans City Park

Copy and translation of the original Spanish plan dated 1798, showing the City of New Orleans, its fortifications, and environs.

This file appears in: Origins of New Orleans City Park

Origins of New Orleans City Park

By Kimberly Jochum & Kathryn O'Dwyer, editor

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…