Lake Pontchartrain (Images of America)

1934 - Spanish Fort

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This section of a 1934 Survey of Historic American Buildings includes a view of the new seawall and reclaimed land as well the outline of streets “proposed by the Orleans Levee Board”, The “Old RR [railroad] Station House” (right), the fort (bottom center), and a “Turn Table Foot Bridge” crossing the bayou (bottom). (Courtesy Library of Congress.)

    

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