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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Crescent City, (search)
Crescent City, A name given to New Orleans. Its older portion was built around a bend of the Mississippi of crescent form.
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es......June 25, 1868 Fourteenth Amendment adopted by the legislature......July, 1868 Numerous political and color riots occur in New Orleans, Opelousas, and other portions of the State during the year ......1868 Passage of social equality bill, giving all persons, without regard to color or previous condition, equal privileges in public conveyances or places of public resort......Jan. 4, 1869 Fifteenth Amendment ratified by Senate, Feb. 27, and by House......March 1, 1869 Crescent City Live-stock and Slaughter-house Company, a monopoly in New Orleans which excited opposition, and was finally declared unconstitutional and restrained by perpetual injunction, was created by the legislature and went into operation......June 1, 1869 Legislature grants to the New Orleans, Mobile, and Chattanooga Railway Company $3,000,000 in 8-per-cent. State bonds, payable in four instalments......Feb. 21, 1870 Legislature unites Jefferson City and Algiers with New Orleans under one