The Denver was rapidly deteriorating as the 1900s ended. Berthed in Bayou Gauche, it endured many years of harsh elements and sank several times. After each...
Category - Transportation
Major industrialization would not begin on the west bank of the river for another forty years into the second half of the twentieth century. Commerce was...
Courtesy St. Charles Parish Planning and Zoning Department Railroad lines, linking the region to new Orleans, arrived in the 1850s. The difficulties of this...
In 1860, the German Coast residents still had dirt roadways that remained well into the 20th Century. Road construction was left to the respective parishes...
The first railroads were built in the 1830s. Early railroad travel was dangerous as construction was unbelievably crude. Poorly installed rails worked loose...