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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25JJ_h-sophie-newcomb-memorial-college_New-Orleans-LA.html
Founded 1886 as the Coordinate Women's College of Tulane University by Josephine Louise Le Mommier Newcomb (1816-1901) in memory of her daughter Harriott Sophie Newcomb (1855-1870).Originally located in the former Thomas Hale House at Camp Street …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25JI_newcomb-pottery-garden_New-Orleans-LA.html
The Newcomb Pottery Garden honors the artistic legacy of Newcomb Pottery, a quasi-commercial enterprise established in the late 19th century in association with the curriculum of Newcomb College...During its forty-five years in existence, the Newc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z86_national-shrine-of-our-lady-of-prompt-succor_New-Orleans-LA.html
On January 7, 1815, the eve of the Battle of New Orleans, Ursulines and townsfolk prayed for victory, before the Virgin's statue, now in this National Shrine of Our Lady of Prompt Succor. Ever after, first St. Louis Cathedral and since 1851 in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YDB_mater-dolorosa-church_New-Orleans-LA.html
This church came into being in 1899, when the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin, established in the Town of Carrollton in 1848, and the Mater Dolorosa German Church, which dated from 1871, were united into a single parish. With the cons…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYQZ_dedroit-residence_New-Orleans-LA.html
John "Johnny" DeDroit (1892-1988) cornetist, and bandleader, lived here at 737 Henry Clay Avenue from 1929 until 1933. He was a cornet soloist at the age 12 at the Winter Garden Theater on Baronne St., and subsequently played every New Orleans the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8QV_town-of-carrollton_New-Orleans-LA.html
Laid out by Charles Zimpel in 1833 on site of Macarty Plantation, formerly uppermost part of Bienvilles's 1719 land grant. Jefferson Parish seat 1852-1874. Annexed 1874 by New Orleans. 1854 courthouse designed by Henry Howard.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8QU_the-st-charles-line_New-Orleans-LA.html
Began service in 1835 as the Carrollton Line of the N.O. & Carrollton Railroad. Powered by steam engine, horse, and mule prior to electrification in 1893. It is the oldest continuously operated street railway line in the world.