Plan of New Orleans, City Capital of Louisiana and Environs

Hand drawn map of New Orleans in the 1700s. The city is a grid of six blocks by twelve blocks oriented to the Mississippi River. Stretching behind the city block to the North is Bayou Road with small settlements drawn in clusters along the road. Trees, grasses and fields are drawn in with hundreds of small stylistic figures.

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Title

Plan of New Orleans, City Capital of Louisiana and Environs

Description

Photograph of a map drawn between 1725-1735 of New Orleans and the area around it, between the Mississippi River and the lake.

Creator

Unidentified

Source

Historic New Orleans Collection, 1974.25.18.96

Date

1/1/1730

Rights

Standard: Use at the discretion and with permission of source

Format

https://catalog.hnoc.org/web/arena/search#/entity/thnoc-archive/1974.25.18.96/plan-of-new-orleans%2C-city-capital-of-louisiana-and-environs

Citation

Unidentified, “Plan of New Orleans, City Capital of Louisiana and Environs,” GNOArch: The Archaeology of the Greater New Orleans Area, accessed October 22, 2026, https://gnoarch.com/items/show/164.

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