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On Newton Street at 3rd Street, on the right when traveling south on Newton Street.
On June, 4, 1884 members of the
police jury of Jefferson Parish
Right Bank:
F.H. Hatch, Pres.,
Geo. Bossey • H. Eloi
H. WIlkinson • L.H. Marrero
W. M. Naudain • N. Le Bouef
held their first meeting in this
William Tell . . . — — Map (db m81058) HM
On Huey P. Long Avenue at 11th Street, on the left when traveling north on Huey P. Long Avenue.
Incorporated 20 August 1913. John Ehret, First Mayor. Seat of Jefferson Parish Government since 1884. German settlement laid out in 1836 by Benjamin Buisson for Nicholas Noel Destrehan as Village of Mechanikham. — — Map (db m80973) HM
On Lafayette Street at 2nd Street, on the right when traveling north on Lafayette Street.
This property
David Crockett
Firehall
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m81060) HM
On Derbigny Street at 3rd Street, on the left when traveling north on Derbigny Street.
Home of Pierre A.C.B. Derbigny, 6th Governor of La., 1828~1829, member 1st La. Legislature, La. Secretary of State, La. Supreme Court Judge, Battle of N.O. veteran. 1820 operated 1st steam ferry on Miss. River at N.O. Died 1829 from a carriage . . . — — Map (db m80975) HM
On Mississippi River Trail, on the right when traveling south.
Ferry operated from 1898 to 1942 with two transfer boats. One, the Gouldsboro, named for railroad magnate Jay Gould, was built in 1863 as the Federal Monitor Chickasaw and saw action at the Battle of Mobile Bay. — — Map (db m129478) HM
In 1839, St. Mary's Market Steam Ferry Company developed 824 lots along Lafayette Avenue, naming the area Gretna and establishing commercial ferry service between the West Bank and New Orleans. — — Map (db m129780) HM
On 2nd Street at Huey P Long Avenue, on the right when traveling east on 2nd Street.
Built in 1907 as the sixth
Jefferson Parish Courthouse
Annex added 1929
Dedicated Gretna City Hall 1964
National Register of Historic Places 1983 — — Map (db m81107) HM
On Franklin Avenue (State Highway 23) at Virgil Street, in the median on Franklin Avenue.
Founded 1815 by education philanthropist John McDonogh. Also known as Freetown where his freed slaves settled and Gouldsboro for railroad magnate Jay Gould. Incorporated 1913 into City of Gretna. — — Map (db m80976) HM
Near Brooklyn Avenue near Lawrence Street, on the right when traveling north.
In 1813, the former Monplaisir Plantation was purchased
and subdivided by wealthy landowner John McDonogh.
His vast estate was left to the educational systems of
Baltimore and New Orleans upon his death in 1850. — — Map (db m191572) HM
Founded in 1836 by Nicholas Noel Destrehan, Mechanickham was originally part of the Spanish land grant to the Ursuline nuns in 1790. It was incorporated with the villages of Gretna and McDonoghville in 1913 into the City of Gretna, the seat of . . . — — Map (db m129684) HM
On Huey P Long Avenue at 1st Street, on the left when traveling south on Huey P Long Avenue.
Approx. 200 feet SW of this site, cast first gun for the Confederate Navy on 4 May 1861. The gun, a Dalhgren cannon, fired an 8~inch diameter explosive shell. Sylvester Bennett was proprietor. — — Map (db m81063) HM
On First Street near Huey P. Long Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
On February 27, 1948, Royal Brooks, a 44-year old African
American man and union member of Local 309 FTA-CIO, boarded a
bus at Ferry Landing Terminal in Gretna, Louisiana. The woman in
front of him paid her fare of one nickel and then realized . . . — — Map (db m149207) HM
On 6th Street at Lavoisier Street, on the right when traveling east on 6th Street.
Father T. Anwander, C.SS.R., with a group of laymen, organized the mother church of West Jefferson in 1857. Previously Redemptorists crossing the Mississippi from the city of Lafayette had served the German, Irish, French and . . . — — Map (db m81135) HM
Established in 1876, John Stumpf's Son Co. manufactured
insecticides which aided the successful completion of
the Panama Canal. In 1915 "Magic Hoodoo" products
received the Medal of Award at the Panama-Pacific
International Exposition. — — Map (db m129516) HM
Near Mississippi River Trail near Mardi Gras Boulevard, on the right when traveling north.
Completed in 1849, this three story building treated sailors until abandoned after the 1858 Belle Crevasse. During the War Between the States, gunpowder was manufactured at the site and arson was suspected when the building exploded on December 18, . . . — — Map (db m205421) HM
