Richard Campanella
Contributing Writer| The New Orleans Advocate at The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
New Orleans geographer; author; professor and associate dean for research-Tulane School of Architecture; Louisiana Writer Award; Chevalier-Palmes Académiques
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3 weeks ago |
nola.com | Richard Campanella
Few words distressed navigators more than “the bar” — referring to the sandbar that regularly obstructed the mouth of the Mississippi River — until a remarkable engineer from St. Louis solved the problem, starting 150 years ago this month. Sedimentation had vexed river navigation since the founding of Louisiana, but the 1870s saw the worst of it. "The Port of New Orleans,” wrote historian Walter M.
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1 month ago |
nola.com | Richard Campanella
In the glare of its notoriety, we sometimes lose sight of the fact that Bourbon Street is a neighborhood street — with homes, residents and culture. What may be particularly surprising, especially during this Carnival weekend, is just how ordinary Bourbon Street was during the first half of its three-century history.
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Dec 5, 2024 |
nola.com | Richard Campanella
Two centuries ago, the largest cities in our region — considered at the time to be the southwestern United States — were New Orleans and Natchez, Mississippi. Being both a seaport and riverport as well as state capital, New Orleans had over 12 times more residents. But Natchez dominated the interior cotton trade on which New Orleans depended, and as settlers moved into the Mississippi Valley, its exports would only grow.
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Dec 1, 2024 |
64parishes.org | Richard Campanella |Alexandra Kennon Shahin
Of all sixty-four Louisiana parishes, Tangipahoa Parish stands alone in the origin of its shape. To understand why, it helps to see how geographers have classified the morphology of political jurisdictions, be they nations, states, counties, or in Louisiana, parishes. Those classifications include compact, prorupted (that is, protruding), elongated, fragmented, and perforated (“doughnut”) shapes.
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Nov 6, 2024 |
nola.com | Richard Campanella
With the exception of the French Quarter, the streets, blocks and parcels of historic New Orleans fit within the framework of plantations created in the 1700s and urbanized by the mid-1800s. Known as French long-lots, the plantations were surveyed in elongated shapes, so that each parcel would front the Mississippi River and slice across the elevated natural levee, extending back to the swamp by 40 to 80 arpents, roughly 1.5 to three miles.
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