History and Culture

Chalmette Battlefield
Site of the last and most decisive battle of the war of 1812.

CODOFIL
Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, seeks to preserve the French speaking culture of South Louisiana.

French Quarter Citizens
The French Quarter neighborhood its history and architecture.

Greater New Orleans Community Data Center
A wealth of information about New Orleans neighborhoods, and the five-parish New Orleans area.

A History of New Orleans
A brief on-line history of the city by Donnald McNabb & Lee Madere

Halloween, Ghosts, And Voodoo
New Orleans paranormal, occult, voodoo, and witchcraft legends.

Krewe des Sept Productions
Provides theatrical and educational programming to the communities of South Louisiana and its visitors, and is administered by a core group of professional and culturally diverse artists.

New Orleans Cemeteries
Tourists have a fascination for visiting and making photographs of our "above the ground" tombs and unique cemeteries.

New Orleans Facts
Some interesting facts about New Orleans

Pontchartrain Beach
A trip down memory lane for those who grew up during the 1930's through the 1970's.

Save Our Cemeteries
This project is intended to identify an map all of the graves, and to maintain the cemeteries as a local cultural treasure.

Save Our Lake
An effort to reduce polution in the lake, so that swimming will be safe again. It's almost there.

Vieux Carre Property Owners, Residents and Associates
An organization for to preserving the French Quarter, to maintain its quaint and distinctive character and its living neighborhood quality of life.

The "Yats"
What are the Yats? What do they eat? Where do they live?

Lagniappe

Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children:
And Other Streets of New Orleans
John Churchill Chase

New Orleans in the Fifties
New Orleans in the Forties
New Orleans in the Thirties
New Orleans in the Twenties
Mary Lou Widmer

Buddy Stall's Louisiana Potpourri
Gasper J. Stall

Buddy Stall's New Orleans
Buddy Stall

Proud Peculiar New Orleans: The Inside Story
G.J. Stall

Short History of New Orleans
Mel Leavitt