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  2. 1853 yellow fever epidemic - Wikipedia

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    The 1853 yellow fever epidemic of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean islands resulted in thousands of fatalities. Over 9,000 people died of yellow fever in New Orleans alone, [1] around eight percent of the total population. [2] Many of the dead in New Orleans were recent Irish immigrants living in difficult conditions and without any acquired ...

  3. Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop - Wikipedia

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    Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is a historic structure at the corner of Bourbon Street and St. Philip Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Most likely built as a house in the 1770s during the Spanish colonial period, it is one of the oldest surviving structures in New Orleans. According to legend, the privateer Jean Lafitte, aka ...

  4. Tchoupitoulas Street - Wikipedia

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    Tchoupitoulas Street ( / ˌtʃɒpɪˈtuːləs / ⓘ CHOP-ih-TOO-ləss) is a street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Running through uptown, it is the through street closest to the Mississippi River. Formerly, the street was heavily devoted to river shipping commerce, but as shipping concerns gravitated to other locations in the latter ...

  5. Bourbon Street - Wikipedia

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    Bourbon Street ( French: Rue Bourbon, Spanish: Calle de Borbón) is a historic street in the heart of the French Quarter of New Orleans. Extending twelve blocks from Canal Street to Esplanade Avenue, Bourbon Street is famous for its many bars and strip clubs . With 17.74 million visitors in 2017 alone, New Orleans depends on Bourbon Street as a ...

  6. D. H. Holmes - Wikipedia

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    Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, and housewares. D. H. Holmes was a New Orleans department store and later a New Orleans-based chain of department stores. The company was founded in 1842 by Daniel Henry Holmes, after whom it is named. [1] In 1849 he moved his headquarters to Canal Street, where he developed his ...

  7. Magazine Street - Wikipedia

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    Magazine Street. Magazine Street is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana. Like Tchoupitoulas Street, St. Charles Avenue, and Claiborne Avenue, it follows the curving course of the Mississippi River. The street took its name from an ammunition magazine located in this vicinity during the 18th-century colonial period.

  8. Canal Street, New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    Canal Street in the 1950s. For more than a century, Canal Street was the main shopping district of Greater New Orleans.Local or regional department stores Maison Blanche, D. H. Holmes, Godchaux's, Gus Mayer, Labiche's, Kreeger's, and Krauss anchored numerous well-known specialty retailers, such as Rubenstein Men's Store, Adler's Jewelry, Koslow's, Rapp's, and Werlein's Music, as well as ...

  9. History of the Ursulines in New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    The Ursulines established an orphanage in the convent and one of the first hospitals in New Orleans. They worked in health care, and treated malaria and yellow fever among the slave population. The hospital usually had from thirty to forty patients, most of them soldiers. [ 5 ] The first pharmacist in the United States was an Ursuline woman ...