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To: Triffin who wrote (135662)	8/31/2005 11:18:44 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793970

When New Orleans was first established, it was on naturally occurring high ground, the first high ground north of the delta. Actually the French settled Biloxi first, and Ship Island, and then came up through Lake Borgne and Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas and so forth to New Orleans, came in through Bayou St. John, to trade with the other French who were coming down the river from Canada, and the Indians. And then they set up plantations using funds from John Law's investment company that led to the Mississippi Bubble and the collapse of the French economy. The first areas to settle were relatively high ground - Vieux Carre, Bayou St. John, Gentilly Ridge, Metairie Ridge, Carrollton. All places where periodic flooding threw up silt that became naturally higher ground. You could live for a year on the price of a beaver pelt back then. If you are familiar with the old maps (18th century) you can see the history of the city in the new maps.