Download or read book Evaluation of the National Register Eligibility of Burrwood Plaquemines Parish Louisiana written by R. Christopher Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluation of the National Register Elgibility of Burrwood Plaquemines Parish Louisiana written by R. C. Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During February and March, 1985, archeological investigations and topographic mapping of Burrwood, an abandoned U.S. Army Corps of Engineers facility located on the left descending bank of Southwest Pass in Plquemines Parish, Louisiana, were undertaken in order to evaluate its eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places. Archival and historical research; Oral history; and fieldwork comprising photographic recordation, topographic survey, surface collection, subsurface testing and excavation, and preparation of a large scale topographic map and site plan were performed. A thematic review of the history of the lowermost delta and a discussion of other historic sites in the lowermost Mississippi River delta also were prepared. As a result of these investigations, it was determined that the Burrwood site does not fulfill the criteria for nomination to or inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. No further work is recommended.
Download or read book Katrina written by Andy Horowitz and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year “The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina—the civic calamity, not the storm itself—as a consequence of decades of bad decisions by humans, not an unanticipated caprice of nature.” —Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster can be traced back nearly a century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing near the Mississippi, on lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers made it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than for African Americans. He explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana’s oil industry have been distributed unevenly, prompting dreams of abundance and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today. “Masterful...Disasters have the power to reveal who we are, what we value, what we’re willing—and unwilling—to protect.” —New York Review of Books “If you want to read only one book to better understand why people in positions of power in government and industry do so little to address climate change, even with wildfires burning and ice caps melting and extinctions becoming a daily occurrence, this is the one.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
Download or read book Where The River Runs Deep written by Joy J. Jackson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joy J. Jackson’s Where the River Runs Deep tells two stories—both significant and both fascinating. It is a biography of the author’s father, Oliver Jackson, who spent virtually his entire life on or near the Mississippi River. And it is a history of the river itself, and the many changes that have transformed it in the twentieth century. Born in an oysterman’s camp in south Louisiana, only a few miles from the Gulf of Mexico, and raised in an orphanage in New Orleans, Oliver Jackson (1896–1985) grew up to become a pilot boat crew member, a merchant seaman, a tugboat-man, and ultimately a Mississippi River pilot, the profession to which he had always aspired. Drawing extensively on oral history, including a series of audiotapes her father recorded before his death, Jackson presents a detailed social history not only of her father and his forebears but of a way of life now past. She vividly portrays village life in once-thriving but now-vanished river communities such as Port Eads and Burrwood in the delta below New Orleans, and in such working-class areas of the city as the Irish Channel. And she provides detailed descriptions of the early days of riverboat piloting between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and of tugboat work in the New Orleans harbor. Throughout, she evokes the special passion and respect that pilots have always had for their work and the river. Woven into Jackson’s narrative of her father’s life and career is a history of the profound changes in life and commerce on the Mississippi River since the turn of the century. During Oliver Jackson’s lifetime, cotton gave way to petroleum as the major product transported on the lower Mississippi, while steamboats faded away and were replaced by towboats, with their long lines of barges. After mid-century many of the plantations and rural homesteads that had lined the banks of the river since the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were crowded by the increasing presence of petrochemical plants. Jackson also writes about such calamitous events as the hurricane of 1915 and the great flood of 1927, and she describes the menace of German submarines at the mouth of the Mississippi during America’s early months in World War II. Where the River Runs Deep is a story of river life unlike any other. It will appeal to students of regional history and family history, as well as to anyone fascinated by the lore of the Mississippi.
Download or read book Culture after the Hurricanes written by M. B. Hackler and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rebuilding in Louisiana and Mississippi after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita presented some very thorny issues. Certain cultural projects benefited from immediate attention and funding while others, with equal cases for assistance but with less attraction to future tourist dollars, languished. New Orleans and its surroundings contain a diverse mixture of Native Americans, African Americans, Creoles, Cajuns, Isleños with roots in the Canary Islands, and the descendants of Italian, Irish, English, Croatian, and German immigrants, among others. Since 2005 much is now different for the people of the Gulf Coast, and much more stands to change as governments, national and international nonprofit organizations, churches, and community groups determine how and even where life will continue. This collection elucidates how this process occurs and seeks to understand the cultures that may be saved through assistance or may be allowed to fade away through neglect. Essays in Culture after the Hurricanes examine the ways in which a wide variety of stakeholders---community activists, elected officials, artists, and policy administrators---describe, quantify, and understand the unique assets of the region. Contributors question the process of cultural planning by analyzing the language employed in decision making. They attempt to navigate between rhetoric and the actual experience of ordinary citizens, examining the long-term implications for those who call the Gulf Coast home.
Download or read book Evaluation of the National Register Eligibility of the M V Fox written by R. Christopher Goodwin and Associates and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Between Two Levees Archeological Testing and Evaluation of the National Register Eligibility of the Bayou Goula Landing Site Iberville Parish Louisiana written by R. C. Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evaluation was made of the National Register eligibility of the Bayou Goula Landing site (16 IV 131) during October, 1985. Bankline survey and subsurface testing documented the nature and extent of cultural resources along the nearly one-mile length of the project area, and determined the influence of recent erosion on previously delineated resources within the area. Only cultural remains in Artifact Scatter 1 retained contextual integrity. Intensive auger testing and controlled excavations then were conducted in the Artifact Scatter 1 locale. Intact cultural deposits were identified; however, this deposit was extremely limited in extent. It was determined that the research potential of the Artifact Scatter 1 area is exhausted, and that the site is not eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places.
Download or read book Between Two Levees written by R. Christopher Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government Reports Announcements Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agriculture and Economic Development in Louisiana written by Thomas A. Becnel and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 1997 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces Louisiana's economic evolution and concentrates on the period between statehood, 1812, and 1995.
Download or read book Evaluation of the National Register Eligibility of the Vermilion Lock Vermilion Parish Louisiana written by Jeffrey Treffinger and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses the Vermilion Lock from the standpoint of possible National Register eligibility. The history of this lock, its place in the history of lock technology, factors affecting use of the lock and its replacement in 1985, are all discussed. It is concluded that the failure of the lock to adequately serve the purpose for which it was intended and its present lack of integrity, from the structural and historical standpoints, render it ineligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historical Places. Keywords: Locks, Intracoastal waterway, Vermilion parish, Lock technology, National register, Historical places.
Download or read book National Register Assessment of the Broadmoor Neighborhood New Orleans Orleans Parish Louisiana written by Kathryn M. Kuranda and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Register of Historic Places Eligibility Evaluation of Seven Targets Located Within Pools 4 and 5 of the J Bennett Johnston Waterway Louisiana written by Michael C. Tuttle and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluation of the National Register Eligibility of the Vermilion Lock Vermilion Parish Louisiana written by Jeffrey Treffinger and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government Reports Annual Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behavior Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Radiological Defense Planning and Operations Guide written by United States. Office of Civil Defense and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
