Norman's New Orleans and Environs / Containing a Brief Historical Sketch of the Territory and State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time

by Benjamin Moore Norman

• 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]
• • 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]
• New Orleans, view of, [58]
  • first published in 1794, [25]
• Newspaper Press, [173]