Part 12
ROUTE 10.--_New Orleans to Florence, Al., by Steamboat._
Miles. Tennessee River, 1085 | Petersville, Tenn., 71 | 1156 Reynoldsburg, 36 | 1192 Perryville, 42 | 1234 Carrollville, 27 | 1261 Coffee, 26 | 1287 Savannah, 9 | 1296 Waterloo, 25 | 1321 Bear Creek, 12 | 1333 Colbert's Ferry, Tenn., 14 | 1347 Florence, Al., 24 | 1371
GENERAL INDEX
Academies for Females, 44
Algiers, a description of, 194
Alligators, killed for their skins, 42
American Theatre, erected in 1823, 67 description of, 180
Amusements, 176
Ancient Settlements supposed to have existed, 11
Anecdote of an old Frenchman, 68 early cotton growing, 47
Annunciation Square, 183 Church, 100
Armories, 149
Association, Young Men's Howard, 115
Associations for charitable and other purposes, 110
Asylums of New Orleans, their excellence, ib.
Asylum, Catholic Male Orphan, 114 Female do, 110 Male do, 113 Milne do, 116 Poydras Female do, 113 Les dames de la Providence, 114
Attakapas Prairie, 38 Parish, 39 produces abundance of live oak, 33
Atchafalaya lands, 34
Bank of Louisiana, 155 Louisiana State, 153 Canal, 155 City, 154 Mechanics' and Traders', 153 Gas, 154
Banks' Arcade, 156
Bard, Captain, Return of, 16
Bar of New Orleans, 79
Barracks, the United States, 86
Baton Rouge taken, 24
Battle Ground, 196
Bayou St. John Road, 194
Beautiful land bordering the Teche, 33
Bellevue Prairie, 40
Benevolent Society, Hebrew, 116
Best lands, 31
Bienville, made governor, 17 is superseded in 1710, ib. deceives the English captain, 16 is reappointed governor in 1717, 17 founds New Orleans, 1718, 18 sails for France in 1727, 20 is succeeded by Perrier, ib. governor for the third time, ib. resigns in 1741, ib.
Biloxi settled by Iberville, 16
Board of Health established in 1841, 71
Boatmen of the Mississippi, 75
Bottom lands, their luxuriance, 30
Boundaries of the State of Louisiana, 28 Territory of Louisiana, 7
Branch Mint of the United States, 88
Branch Bank of the United States, established 1805, 66
Breed of cattle improving, 56
Bricks, why they are not well made, 57
Buildings, the public, 86
Burr, Aaron, 26
Business season, appearance of the levee in the, 81
Calcasieu prairie, 40
Caldwell, James H., his great enterprise, 67
Carmelite Convent, 104
Carondelet appointed governor in 1792, 25 fortifies New Orleans in 1792, 64 his schemes defeated by Gen. Wilkinson, 26
Casa Blanca, 189
Carrolton, 191
Casa Calvo succeeds governor Gayosa de Lemor, 26 is succeeded by Salado, ib.
Catholic Cemeteries, 107
Cathedral, 92
Cattle, improvement in the breed, 56
Ceded to the United States, Louisiana, 26
Cemetery, Cypress Grove, 105 Catholic, 107 Protestant, 108 St. Patrick's, 109
Chapel of the Ursulines, 98 St. Antoine's, or the Mortuary, 97 Wesleyan, 103
Charitable Association, the Samaritan, 114 the Firemen's, 115
Charitable institutions, 110
Charity Hospital, 117
Church, Annunciation, 100 St. Augustine, 96 Christ, 99 St. Paul's, 95 St. Patrick's, 95 First Presbyterian, 100 Second do, 101 First Congregational, ib. Methodist Episcopal, 102 First Baptist, ib.
Circus, the, 180
Circus Place, 182
Circus street Infirmity, 124
City Exchange, (St. Louis,) 157 Bank, 154 Hall, 134 Improvements, an anecdote, 68 Proper, its extent, ib. Prisons, 129
Clay, of a very pure kind, 57
Clergy, of New Orleans, 79
Climate of Louisiana, 45
College of Louisiana, 43 Jefferson, ib. Franklin, ib. Medical, 168
Colonial system introduced, 17 carried out, 21
Colony transferred to France in 1803, 24
Colorado ascended by La Salle, 15
Comedians first arrived in 1791, 64 become teachers, ib.
Commercial advantages of New Orleans, 81
Commercial exchange, 159 prosperity commences in 1795, 25
Comparative speed of navigating the Mississippi, 80
Congregational Church, first, 101
Convent of Ursuline nuns, erected in 1730, 61 its description, 103
Convent, new one erected in 1824, 61 its description, 104
Coast, the, 31
Convent, the Carmelite, 104 at Grand Coteau, 44
Cotton, when first exported, an anecdote, 47 the quantity estimated for 1844, 45 opinions on the fluctuating price of, 48 its consumption in New England, 49 in England, ib. will present prices sustain the planter? 50 the produce of Texas, ib. lands, where the best, 34 Factories, 151 Presses, 152
Court-house, 133
Creoles their character, 73
Crevasse, in 1816, 42 in 1844, at Bonne Carre, ib.
Crozat, Antonio, obtains an exclusive privilege, 17
Cuba tobacco seed does well in Louisiana, 54
Cultivation of sugar, 21 of Cotton, 47 of madder, 51 of silk, 53 of hemp, ib. of the vine, 55 of tobacco, 54 of indigo, 55 of orange and fig do, 20
Currency, evil of its depreciation, 19
Custom house, description of it, 89
Custom House, a new one contemplated, 90
Cypress Grove Cemetery, 105
Death of Iberville, 17 de Soto, 10
Delta of the Mississippi, 37
Deposit of red river, 34
Description of United States Barracks, 86 Branch Mint, 88
Description of the Custom House, 89 Post Office, 90 State House, 91 Cathedral, 92 St. Patrick's Church, 95 St. Augustine do, 96 Mortuary Chapel, 97 Annunciation Church, 100 Chapel of the Ursulines, 98 Christ Church, 99 St. Paul's do, ib. First Presbyterian do, 100 Second do do, 101 Methodist Episcopal do, 102 Wesleyan Chapel, 103 old Ursuline Convent, ib. new do, 104 Court-House, 133 City Hall, 134 St. Charles Exchange, 137 Verandah, 141 City Exchange, (St. Louis,) 157
Discovery of the Mississippi, 7
Disputed Territory, 8
Division of the city in 1836, 67
Don Ulloa driven away, 22
Don O'Reilly takes possession, 23
Duelling punished by disfranchise, 78
Education in Louisiana, 43
Elliot, Andrew, 26
"English Turn," whence derived, 16
Exchange Hotel, (St. Charles,) 137 Merchants', 161 (St. Louis,) City, 157 Commercial, 159
Excursions, 191
Extent of the territory of Louisiana, 9 New Orleans, in 1810, 66 the City Proper, 68
Feliciana, West, parish of, 32
Female Orphan Asylum, 110
Fig trees introduced, 20
Fire consumes nine hundred houses in 1778, 62 many buildings in 1796, 65 seven blocks of houses in 1844, 70
Fire department, 149
Firemen's Charitable Association, 115
First steamboat arrives at New Orleans, 27
First Presbyterian Church, 100 Congregational do, 101
Florida invaded by Gov. Galvez, in 1779, 24
Floating Prairies, a great natural curiosity, 35
Flour mill, 151
Fort Charlotte taken, 24
Fountain of Health, 9
Franklin College, 43 Infirmary, 124
Gas Works, a description of them, 144 the city lighted with it in 1834, 70
Gayosa de Lemor made governor, 26
Gayosa de Lemor succeeded by Casa Calvo, 26
German emigrants settle along the coast in 1723, 60 supply the city with vegetables, ib.
Grape vines, where to be cultivated, 55
Grazing, the very best lands for it, ib.
Gretna, 195
Gypsum, valuable beds found, 56
Health of New Orleans, 77
Hebrew Benevolent Society, 116
Hemp suited to the higher grounds, 53 an immense article of consumption, ib. necessary in time of war, 54
Hernandez de Soto, first discovery of Louisiana, 7 his death, 10
Historical Sketch of New Orleans, 58
Hospitality of the inhabitants of Opelousas, 40
Hospitals, easy access to them, 117 the Charity, ib.
Hotel, Exchange, (St. Charles,) 137 the Verandah, 141 St. Louis Exchange, 143 Hewlett's, ib. Planters', ib. National, ib.
Hall of Second Municipality, 127
Hurricane devastates New Orleans 1723, 60
Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, article, 48
Iberville enters the Mississippi, 16 establishes the first settlement at Biloxi, ib. founds Natchez, 17 his death, ib.
Improvement in New Orleans in 1824, 66
Incorporation of New Orleans in 1805, ib.
Indian massacre of the whites at Natchez, 19
Indigo cultivated in 1728, 20 cultivation now much neglected, 55
Infirmary, Circus street, 124 Franklin, ib.
Inquisition, its establishment frustrated in 1785, 25
Iron foundry, 150
Jefferson College, 43
Jesuits and Ursuline Nuns arrived in 1727, 60 expelled by Clement XIII., in 1763, 61 their property confiscated, ib. their immense wealth, ib. curious documents of them in archives of first municipality, ib.
La Dames de la Providence, 114
Lafayette Square, 182
Lafourche, Bayou, 32
Lakes, inlets, and sounds, 37
La Salle descends the Mississippi to the Gulf, 14 builds a fort at the mouth of Little Miami, ib. sails for France, 15 goes into the bay of St. Bernard, ib. ascends the Colorado, ib. forms a settlement on St. Bernard's bay, ib. is murdered by Dehault, ib. his character and enterprise, ib.
Law, John, the Scotch financier, 18
Learned professions, divinity, law, and medicine, 79
Le Moniteur, first paper published in New Orleans, 25
Levee, its extent, 31 crevasse in 1816 and 1844, 42 its appearance in the business season, 81 Cotton Press, 152
Literary Association, Young Men's, 167
Live oak of Attakapas, its abundance, 33
Louisiana, territory of, its discovery, 7 its boundaries, ib. transferred to Spain, 22 retransferred to France in 1803, 26 sold to the United States in 1803, ib. the State of, admitted to the union in 1812, 27 its boundaries, surface and soil, 28 its vast prairies, 30 its improvement in education, 43 College of, ib. mutton unsurpassed, 56 the climate of, 45 State Bank, 153 Medical College, 168
Luxuriance of the bottom lands, 34
Lyceum, Public School, 166 the People's, 167
Madder described, how cultivated, 51 price, duties, and demand for it, ib.
Maison de Sante, 123
Male Orphan Asylum, 113
Manufactures, 150
Marine Hospital, United States, 125
Markets of New Orleans, 135
Market, Poydras street, 136 the Vegetable, ib. the Meat, ib.
Market, St. Mary's, 137
Marquette descends the Mississippi, 13
Marshes, extensive near the ocean, 38
Masonic Fraternities, 80
Massacre at Natchez, 19
Meat Market, 136
Mechanics' and Traders' Bank, 153
Medical Science, 79
Medical College of Louisiana, 168
Merchants' Exchange, 161 Reading Room, ib.
Meteorological Journal, an abstract from the, 72
Methodist Episcopal Church, 102
Mexican Gulf Rail-road, 193
Military strength of New Orleans in 1792, 64
Milne Orphan Asylum, 116
Minerals of Louisiana, 56
Mint, Branch of the United States, 88
Miro succeeds Galvez as governor, 25 carries the colonial system into effect, ib.
Mississippi River discovered by De Soto, 10 River made free in 1795, 25 Valley, its vast extent, 83 boatmen, description of them, 74 immensity of its produce, 82-84 Delta of, 37
Moral character of New Orleans, 78
Moscoso's Adventures, 10
Mulberry trees prolific in Louisiana, 53
Municipal Hall, 127
Muskeet grass, excellent for cattle, 55
Mutton, 56
Natchez massacre of the whites, 19 tribe defeated, ib. founded by Iberville, 17
National Hotel, 143 Gallery of Paintings, 169
Natchitoches tobacco, very superior, 54
Nature of the soil of Louisiana, 29
New Orleans founded by Bienville in 1718, 59 a historical sketch of, 58
New Orleans, view of, 58 inundated and abandoned in 1719, 59 again occupied in 1722, ib. visited by a hurricane in 1723, 60 by yellow fever in 1769, 62 divided into wards and lighted in 1792, 64 fortified by Carondelet, ib. its military strength, ib. opened to the United States in 1795, 65 a port of entry and delivery in 1804, 66 incorporated in 1805, ib. its extent in 1810, ib. its appearance from various points, 69 lighted with gas in 1834, 70 state of its morals, 78 its commercial advantages, 81 its anticipated greatness, 84 Reading Rooms, 161-2 Police, 78 travelling routes, 201
Newspaper Press, 173 first published in 1794, 25
Olden Time, 184
Old Ursuline Convent, 103
Opelousas Prairie, 39 hospitality of the inhabitants, 40
Opposition to founding New Orleans, 59
Orange trees introduced, 20 destroyed by frost in 1748, ib.
O'Reilly, the Spanish governor, 23 his tyrannical conduct, ib. succeeded by Unzoga, 24
Orleans Cotton Press, 152 Theatre, 176
Orphan Asylums, their excellence, 110
Paintings, National Gallery of, 169 individual collections of, 170
Paving of streets first began, 67
Pensacola taken by the French, 19
People's Lyceum, 167
Physic, Law and Divinity, their progress, 79
Pine woodlands, 30
Place d'Armes, 182
Planing Mill, steam, 151
Plaquemine, 32
Planters' Hotel, 143
Ponce de Leon, 9
Pontchartrain Rail-road, 192
Population in 1732, 20 in 1788, 25 in 1803, 26 of New Orleans in 1723, 59 in 1785, 62 in 1803, 70 in 1810, 66 in 1844, 71 comparative, ib.
Police of New Orleans, 78
Post Office, 90
Pottery may be made of Louisiana clay, 57
Poydras Female Orphan Asylum, 113 street Market, 136
Prairies of the State, 30 particularly described, ib.
Prairie, Attakapas, 33 38 Opelousas, 39 Bellevue, 40
Prairie, Calcasieu, 40
Prairie, Sabine, 40
Press of New Orleans, 173
Presbyterian Church, First, 100 Second, 101
Project of supplying wholesome water, 148
Prospects of New Orleans, 82
Prosperity of trade in 1810, 66
Protestant Cemetery, 108
Public buildings, 86 libraries much wanted, 79 property transferred to the United States, 65
Public School system, 163 how introduced, ib.
Public School Lyceum, 166 Squares, 181
Race Courses, 195
Raft in Red River, 36
Rail-road, Pontchartrain, 192 Carrolton, 191 Mexican Gulf, 193
Reading Room, Merchants', 161 New Orleans, 162
Red River deposit, its nature, 34 raft, 36
Residence of Governor Bienville, 189
Road of Bayou St. John, 194
Rope Walks, 151
Sabine Prairies, 40
Salvado, last Spanish governor, 26
Samaritan Charitable Association, 114
Sauville, the Governor, dies, 17
Saw Mills, steam, 151
School, Convent, 44 Sisters of Charity, ib.
School, Ursuline Nuns', 44
Schools, the Public, ib.
Second Presbyterian Church, 101 Municipality Work-House, 130 Hall, 127
Sheep of Louisiana, very superior, 56 Lafourche, ib.
Shell Road, 192
Silk may be produced in abundance, 53
Society in New Orleans, 73
Soil of Louisiana, 29
State of Louisiana described, 28
State Legislature to be removed, 92 House, 91
Steamboat first arrives from Pittsburgh, 27
Steamboats, early, their trips, 80 extent of present navigation, 83
Steam Planing Mill, 151 Saw Mills, ib.
Streets and sidewalks first paved, 67
St. Augustine Church, 96
St. Patrick's do, 95 Cemetery, 109
St. Paul's Church, 99
St. Antoine's, or Mortuary Chapel, 97
St. Charles Exchange Hotel, 137
St. Louis Exchange Hotel, 143
St. Mary's Market, 137
(St. Louis,) City Exchange, 157
St. Charles Theatre, 178
St. Lorenzo, treaty of, 25
St. Bernard bay occupied by La Salle, 15
Sugar introduced by the Jesuits in 1751, 21 crops their present average, ib.
Sugar lands, 46 refinery, 151
Suggestion to sugar planters, 46
Surface of Louisiana, 29
Tax upon chimneys to light New Orleans, 64
Teche, excellent lands upon its borders, 33
Territory of Louisiana, its boundaries, 7 its discovery by de Soto, 10 its immense extent, 8 transferred to Spain in 1763, 22
Theatre American 1823, 67 Orleans, 176 St. Charles, 178
"The Coast," its extent and luxuriance, 31
Third Municipality Work-house, 133
Tobacco Cuba, cultivated, 54 from Cuba, fine specimens of seed, ib. raised at Natchitoches, ib. worm how to prevent it, 55
Transfer of Louisiana to Spain, 22
Transfer of Louisiana to the United States in 1803, 26
Travelling Routes, 201
Tyrannical conduct of O'Reilly, 23
United States Marine Hospital, 125 Barracks, 86 Branch Bank, established in 1805, 66 Mint, 88
University of Louisiana, see note, 43
Unzoga succeeds O'Reilly as governor, 24 succeeded by Galvez, ib.
Ursuline Convent, the old, 103
Ursuline Chapel, 98 nuns arrived in 1730, 60 erect a new convent in 1824, 104
Vaudreuil marquis de, 20
Variety of the population of New Orleans, 73
Vegetable Market, 136
Verandah, 141
View of New Orleans from various points, 69
Vine, cultivation of the, 55
War between France and Spain, 19 England and France, in 1756, 21 do and Spain, in 1779, 24 do and the United States, 27
Watchmen first established in 1792, 64
Water, a project to supply it without charge, 148
Water Works, supply water from the Mississippi, 70 a description of them, 146
Washington Square, 181
Wesleyan Chapel, 103
Western Company, chartered in 1717, 17 fail, in 1732, 20
West Feliciana, its excellent soil, 32
Wilkinson, Gen., 26
Woods, Col. crosses the Mississippi, 13
Work-house of the Second Municipality, 130 Third do, 133
Yellow fever first introduced in 1769, 62
Yellow Fever, opinions of its transmissibility, 121 No. of cases in Hospital from 1822, to 1844, 120
Young Men's, Howard Association, 115 Literary do, 167
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Transcriber's Notes:
Typographical errors in spelling and punctuation repaired; variant spellings changed when there was a clear majority.
The following variant spellings were retained: "depot" (used for New Orleans) and "depôt" (used for rail-road); "moschetoes" and "mosquitoes"; "enquir" and "inquir" roots (used equally); "Pittsburg" (Miss.) and "Pittsburgh" (Pa.); "Cleaveland" (Ohio) (per Columbia Gazetteer of the World, this was the original name, after its founder Moses Cleaveland); "Zimple" and "Zimpel"; "regime" and "régime."
Hyphenation variants changed to majority use (with priority on usage in headings and text, over usage in index or tables); retained when equal (wood-lands and woodlands, re-transferred and retransferred, pre-eminence and preeminently). "steam-boat" and "steam boat" changed to "steamboat" except on p. 27, where "Steam Boat" is used for the first appearance of a new technology.
Punctuation after chapter and section headings, and illustration captions (periods, commas, no punctuation) was inconsistent; standardized to no punctuation. Brackets around "see Route" references changed to more frequent parentheses.
P. 20, "Vandreuil" corrected to "Vaudreuil."
P. 73, Meteorological table has been split for better displaying (text only).
P. 84, "inexaustible" changed to "inexhaustible."
P. 103, "Diocess" retained; per Oxford English Dictionary (OED) correct for time period.
P. 147, "Tchapitoulas" corrected to "Tchoupitoulas."
P. 174, "cotemporaries" retained; per OED, this was a common period variant for contemporaries.
P. 205, Route 4; "Tombigkbe" changed to "Tombigbee."
P. 206, Savannah. Original shows cumulative miles 2196. Transposition repaired.
P. 206, Route 10 heading, "Ala." changed to more frequent "Al."
P. 213, index; originally left justified "Seven blocks" now indented under "Fire consumes."
P. 222, index; originally left justified "Branch Bank" now indented under "United States."
The following discrepancies in route tables were retained as shown in the original:
P. 202, Smithfield, "1" in original would add up to 1086 cumulative (11 mile discrepancy).
P. 203, Greenupsburg, "13" in original would add up to 1675 cumulative (1 mile discrepancy). Georgetown "7" and Beaver "13" appear to be averaged, since each addition does not add up, but their cumulative addition (20 miles from Welleville to Beaver) does add up.
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