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Title: Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans and environs, with map : illustrated with many original engravings, and containing exhaustive accounts of the traditions, historical legends, and remarkable localities of the Creole city
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926
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Publisher: New York : W.H. Coleman
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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yards by a depth of 300,were two establishments where cotton was cleaned, put up in bales and weighed. The onlyother factory that deserved the name, also in the faubourg, was a sugar refinery, where brownsugar was transformed into a white sugar of fine appearance. This establishment the city owedto the enterprise of certain French refugees from San Domingo. Of the public buildings which are familiar to the eyes of the present generation, only theFrench Market, the Cathedral, and the Cabildo, or City Hall, adjoining the Cathedral at thecorner of St. Peter and Chartres streets, still remain. The Cathedral was not yet finishedand lacked those quaint white Spanish towers and the central belfry, which in 1814 and 1815,were added to it. The Very Illustrious Cabildo, whichheld weekly meetings in this building,was the municipal body of New Orleans. It was composed of twelve individuals called regidorsand was presided over by the Governor-General or his Civil Lieutenant. Jackson Square, called
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11pafc/l^;TQl)^gs:bA■f^ I^^^V^I ^j:^^^^^ ^-./- GUIDE TO NEW ORLEANS. 13 then the Place dArmes, was used as a review ground for the troops, and was resorted to by nursesand children, the elders taking their airing on the Levee or the Grand Chemintha.t fronted thehouses of the rue de la Levee. It was then but a grass plot, barren of trees and used as a play-ground by the children. It was rather a ghostly place, too, for children to play. A woodengallows stood in the middle of it for several years and more than one poor fellow was swung offinto eternity, about the spot where General Jackson now sits in effigy. Then there were notrees and no flowers, and no watchman to drive away the little fellows at play. The gallows wasnot the only stem and forbidding and uncongenial thing about the place either, for the calabosastood just opposite ; it is the police station now. Here, in front of the Place dArmes, everything was congregated—the Cathedral Church ofSt. Louis, the convent of the Capu

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