Algiers, New Orleans

Algiers is a neighborhood of New Orleans, which lies directly opposite the old town on the other side of the river, the west bank of the Mississippi.

She is since 1870 the 15th Ward (of 17 ) of New Orleans and with the center via a bridge ( Crescent City Connection, built in 1958 ) and ferries connected. The first ferry reversed in 1827 by Algiers to the French Quarter.

You have an old town with houses until the 19th century ( Algiers Point opposite the French Quarter on the other side of the river ), which since 1978 has been on the National Register of Historic Places.

The origin of the name should probably remember Algiers, which is separated as a French provincial town of France, as well by water as the earlier French New Orleans and Algiers. Here the African slaves were kept in quarantine until they were sold in New Orleans and the mid-18th century, the Cajuns, French-speaking Canadians, who were expelled by the British from Nova Scotia. As a city, Algiers developed until about the 1800s. There were orchards and ship-building and in the 1850s, a major railway station. In 1840 they received the status of a city. Most of the old houses were destroyed in a fire in 1895. Beginning in 1901, the U.S. Navy had a station there, and from 1966 to 2009 Algiers was one of the two seats of the Naval Support Activity New Orleans, the largest military complex in the area of ​​New Orleans. During Hurricanes Katrina Algiers was largely spared from flooding.

Inhabitants of Algiers are traditionally called Algerines.

Algiers also plays a role in the early history of jazz - early jazz musicians from Algiers were Peter Bocage, Jimmy Palao, Manuel Manetta, Frankie Dusen and Henry Allen Sr. and his son Henry Red Allen.

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