New Orleans Private Tours

08/09/2026

stunning

08/08/2026

burger king… hasn’t for 5 years

07/21/2026

05/28/2026

well said

03/26/2022

Congrats to Loyola University New Orleans Men's Basketball team! NAIA National Champions!

02/04/2021

Adrien de Pauger was a French engineer and cartographer. Appointed by Bienville, he drew the original map of the city, naming streets such as Bourbon, Royal among others. As a member of the Superior Council, he was an early supporter of creating a deep water port on the Mississippi, to take advantage of the area’s situational advantage. He also designed the layout for the city that would become Mobile, Alabama.
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02/03/2021

Baldwin Wood was a Tulane graduate and engineer who designed drainage pumps for the City of New Orleans. His “wood screws”, built in 1913, are still used today in the constant battle to keep a city below sea level as dry as possible. He also led the effort to convert much of the swamp within the city to buildable land for commercial and residential use. His pumps were so effective he went on to build drainage systems in Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee, San Francisco, as well as projects in Canada, China, Egypt, and India.
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01/28/2021

Eli Whitney was born in 1794 and is famous for inventing the cotton gin, a machine that removed cotton seeds from cotton fiber. His invention revolutionized the production and processing of cotton by removing seeds at a rate 50 times faster than a worker by hand.

While the rate of production generated an increased demand for cotton, it inadvertently created a growing demand for slave labor. While slavery is often thought of as a Southern institution, fabric mills in the Northeast and Europe drove demand and profited from slave labor while fueling the Industrial Revolution and creating enormous wealth for some and generational poverty for others.
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01/26/2021

Today in history: Iberville leaves Pensacola for LA, 1699