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

Sample artifacts recovered from the bottom of the wood-lined well, Feature 1. These include a marble pestle handle (a) and multiple pieces of ceramics, including terracotta creamware, whiteware and ironstone.

Wooden artifacts recovered from the bottom of the wood-lined well: a) wooden brush handles; b) painted baseboard molding

Brick rubble shown in-situ during excavation.

Land ownership map from 1836-40 (Courtesy of The Historic New Orleans Collection, Acc. No. 1966.33.10 and Acc. No. 1966.34.36) showing two structures on the block at that time. One extends into the newly built Rocheblave Street. The current school…

Plan of New Orleans from around 1732-1735 annotated to label project area vicinity, the home of Louis Congo and other features.

Late eighteenth century property ownership, improvements and stream courses relative to site 16OR721 and the modern landscape (base Google 2017).

Excavation of dense oyster shell, separate excavation of a shovel test from the earlier investigation in the center.

Excavating the bottom of the wood-lined well showing the quantity of brick pieces that were excavated from the well shaft (in the buckets). Water is standing at the bottom of the feature.

Removing wooden bucket found at almost 8 feet below ground surface in Feature1.
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