The 16th Ward or Sixteenth Ward is a division of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, one of the 17 Wards of New Orleans. Nickname: The Crescent City, The Big Easy, The City That Care Forgot, NOLA (acronym for New Orleans, LA) Location in the State of Louisiana and the United States Coordinates: Country United States State Louisiana Parish Orleans Founded 1718  - Mayor Ray Nagin (D) Area    - City 907 km²  (350. ... The city of New Orleans, Louisiana is divided into 17 Wards. ...

It is an Uptown ward, along with the adjacent 17th Ward formerly part of the city of Carrollton, Louisiana, annexed by New Orleans in the 1870s. Uptown is a large area of New Orleans, Louisiana. ... The 17th Ward is one of the seventeen Wards of New Orleans, a section of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Carrollton is a neighborhood of uptown New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. It is the part of uptown New Orleans furthest up river from the French Quarter. ...

The Ward stretches inland from the Mississippi River, with the upper boundary being Carrollton Avenue, across which is the 17th Ward, and the lower being Lowerline Street, across which is the 14th Ward. The back boundary was the New Basin Canal, now part of the route of I-10. The Mississippi River, derived from the old Ojibwe word misi-ziibi meaning great river (gichi-ziibi big river at its headwaters), is the second-longest river in the United States; the longest is the Missouri River, which flows into the Mississippi. ... The 14th Ward or Fourteenth Ward is a division of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, one of the 17 Wards of New Orleans. ... The New Basin Canal, also known as the New Orleans Canal and the New Canal, was a shipping canal in New Orleans, Louisiana from the 1830s through the 1940s. ... Interstate 10, or I-10, is the southernmost east-west, coast-to-coast interstate highway in the United States. ...

St. Charles Streetcar passes the old Carrollton City Hall Building on Carrollton Avenue, April, 2005

Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1155x765, 332 KB) 1920s Pearly Thomas Streetcar passing old Carrollton City Hall Building, Carrollton Avenue, Uptown New Orleans Photo by Infrogmation, April, 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: St. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1155x765, 332 KB) 1920s Pearly Thomas Streetcar passing old Carrollton City Hall Building, Carrollton Avenue, Uptown New Orleans Photo by Infrogmation, April, 2005 File links The following pages link to this file: St. ...

Neighborhoods and landmarks

Going from the Riverfront back, the Ward includes part of the Mississippi River levee used as a linear park; atop a section of the levee is the regional office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Across Leake Avenue (still called "River Road" by many locals) is the Black Pearl neighborhood. The Ward continues back across St. Charles Avenue, route of the famous St. Charles Avenue Streetcar. The Old Carrollton town hall, now a school The Lower or East Carrollton neighborhood contains much fine wooden 19th century residential architecture, and Maple Street, an old mixed commercial/residential neighborhood main street, with shops, restaurants, bars, and coffee shops of are popular with both locals and students of nearby Tulane University and Loyola University New Orleans. The old residential neighborhood with occasional corner stores continues back to wide Claiborne Avenue, across which is the upper edge of the Fountainbleau neighborhood, and on Carrollton Avenue the Notre Dame Seminary and the residence of the Archbishop of New Orleans, where Pope John Paul II stayed during his visit to New Orleans. Back from Earhart Boulevard was the former location of Lincoln Park and Johnson Park, where such luminaries as Buddy Bolden, Bunk Johnson, and John Robichaux played in the early years of the 20th century; now a mixed commercial and residential area. The Gert Town neighborhood continues back to Xavier University of Louisiana at the back end of the Ward adjacent to I-10. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Dike (construction). ... United States Army Corps of Engineers logo The United States Army Corps of Engineers, or USACE, is made up of some 34,600 civilian and 650 military men and women. ... The St. ... City Hall is a 1996 film directed by Harold Becker. ... Students in Rome, Italy. ... Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. ... Logo of Loyola University New Orleans Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational Jesuit university in the United States with 5,000 students (3,000 undergraduates). ... A seminary is a specialized university-like institution for the purpose of instructing students (seminarians) in theology, often in order to prepare them to become members of the clergy. ... In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop. ... Coat of Arms of Pope John Paul II. The Letter M is for Mary, the mother of Jesus, to whom he held strong devotion Pope John Paul II (Latin: ), (Italian: Giovanni Paolo II), born   [](May 18, 1920, Wadowice, Poland – April 2, 2005, Vatican City) reigned as Pope of the Catholic... Lincoln Park was a noted park in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1902 to 1930. ... Buddy Bolden Charles Buddy Bolden (September 6, 1877 – November 4, 1931) was a cornetist and the first New Orleans jazz musician to come to prominence. ... Willie Gary Bunk Johnson ( 1879/1889–July 7, 1949) was a prominent early New Orleans jazz trumpet player in the early years of the 20th century who enjoyed a revived career in the 1940s. ... Xavier University of Louisiana is a historically African-American Roman Catholic University located off Carrollton Avenue in Mid-City New Orleans, Louisiana. ...

In the general flooding of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, most of the ward from about Green Street back was flooded, while most of the area from around Willow Street to the River was above the flood waters. {{Katrina) nathan cuff got on my compute ...