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Cityscapes: The St. Mary Batture

Library of Congress
This 1798 map, annotated in 1975, shows how much the river had shifted in the intervening years. Note the alluvial ground

The Mississippi River has changed the landscape of New Orleans throughout the last 300 years. WWNO's Jessica Rosgaard sat down with Richard Campanella - Geographer with the Tulane School of Architecture, and columnist for NOLA-dot-com/The Times Picayune, to talk about the area along the riverfront that was once known as St. Mary’s Batture.

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