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Lake Pontchartrain

Autor
- Catherine Campanella
Verlag:
- Arcadia Publishing

Ausgaben: 2
Serie: 1 von 3696
Sprache: Englisch
Format
Kategorie: Geschichte

In Images of America: Lake Pontchartrain, photographs document memories of a time that not even Hurricane Katrina could erase. Native Americans used Okwata, meaning "wide water," as a shortcut for inland trade between the Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi River. When the Europeans arrived, the original inhabitants showed them the route--the settlement near the river became the city of New Orleans, other lakeshore communities grew, and Lake Pontchartrain continued to be a vital waterway well into the 20th century. Aside from its economic value, Lake Pontchartrain was a cultural mecca: Mark Twain wrote about it and jazz sprang from its shores; locals and visitors traveled out to the amusement parks and opera pavilions, simple fishing villages and swanky yacht clubs, forts and lighthouses; and majestic hotels and camps perched precariously over the water.

Erscheinungsdatum

E-Book: 18. April 2007