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Early French Quarter Maps
Royal Tours New Orleans • Mar 30, 2016
Early French Quarter Maps
We are constantly engaged in research, not only for our own curiousity, but in an effort to improve the content of our tours. Some recent research lead us to finding some maps of early New Orleans and what would come to be known as the French Quarter. Some of these maps are from only a few years after the founding of Nouvelle Orleans. They piqued our interest, and we wanted to share them with you.
The first images are maps of Nouvelle Orleans as laid out by Bienville and the city’s second engineer, Adrien de Pauger, who had arrived at the request of Bienville. These maps represent the layout of the city only a few years after its founding in 1718. The names of most of the streets were established early on, and the church and military parade grounds were the focal points of the city.
This map depicts a section of southeastern Louisiana and the path of the Mississippi River as it snakes its way past New Orleans.
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