| 1728 Map Of New Orleans, Louisiana |
"In 1726 Bienville sold to a company of Jesuits a plantation which, by later extensions, up to 1745, occupied about the area of the present First District. Here, in 1727, the Jesuits established a church and mission center. Their plantation became the first agricultural school of Louisiana, for here they introduced cultivation of the orange, fig, sugar cane (1751), indigo plant, and myrtle...".
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| Replica Of The City At The New Orleans Gardens |
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