New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
1895 - New Orleans

New Orleans, or’le-anz (Fr. Nouvelle-Orléans, noo' vèll"-om"lā'b Nu'; Ger. New-Orleans, noi-ot'là-Anz), a city and port of entry of the state of Louisiana, the capital of Orleans parish, and the commercial metropolis of the Gulf States, is situated on the Mississippi River, about 100 miles above its delta. It is about 700 miles by rail S. of St. Louis, Mo., 141 miles W. by S. of Mobile, Ala., and 330 miles E. of Houston, Tex. Lat. of custom-house, 29° 58' N.; lon. 90°5' W. As a port of entry, New Orleans embraces a vast territory, including, besides its own port, the ports of Pitts: burg, Pa., Wheeling, W. Va., Louisville, Ky., Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., St. Louis, Mo., Cincinnati, 0, Evansville, Ind., Galena and Cairo, Ill., Burlington and Dubuque, Iowa, La Crosse, Wis., and Omaha, Neb., which are ports of delivery of the customs-district of New Orleans. New Orleans is the great cotton-market of the country, most of the cotton of Mississippi and a large part of that of Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas coming here for shipment; and it is the great centre of the commerce of the entire Mississippi Valley...

New Orleans was named in honor of the Duke of Orleans, regent of France during the minority of Louis XV. Pop. in 1820, 27, 176; in 1830, 46,310; in 1840, 102,193; in 1850, 126,375; in 1860, 168,675; in 1870, 191,418; in 1880,216,090; in 1890, 242,039.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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