Snapshot of New Orleans

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Locals say that the South ends fifty miles north of New Orleans. In many ways, this is true. This city is home to a diverse music culture, world-renowned cuisine, voodoo, and Mardi Gras, one of the world's largest parties. New Orleans is a relatively small city which had little concern for what went on outside of it until Hurricane Katrina devastated the city 2005. Parts of New Orleans are still recovering... more local info

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New Orleans Neighborhoods

Bywater

East of the busy French Quarter and Marigny neighborhoods is the historic, mainly residential Bywater area. Friendly neighbors sit out on the stoops of their pink and yellow shot-gun houses, and Mr... more neighborhoods

History

Rene Cavelier Sieur de la Salle, a French explorer, was the first European to explore the lower Mississippi River and he claimed the entire river and its basin, a substantially larger plot than the modern...

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