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Audubon Park is a city park located in New Orleans. The park is approximately six miles to the west of the city center of New Orleans and sits on land that was purchased by the city in 1871. It is bordered on one side by the Mississippi River and on another by the Tulane and Loyola Universities. The park is named in honor of artist and naturalist John James Audubon who lived in New Orleans starting in 1821. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixels Full resolution (3264 × 2448 pixel, file size: 4. ...
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Nickname: Location in the State of Louisiana and the United States Coordinates: Country United States State Louisiana Parish Orleans Founded 1718 Government - Mayor Ray Nagin (D) Area - City 350. ...
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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). ...
John James Audubon John James Audubon[1] (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was a Franco-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. ...
The land now housing the park was a plantation in colonial days. It was the last large segment of what was to become Uptown New Orleans not subdivided for residential redevelopment in the 19th century. It was used by the Confederate and Union armies in the United States Civil War and as a staging area for the Buffalo Soldiers. The area was anexed by the City of New Orleans, along with the surrounding communities of Jefferson City below and Greenville above, in 1870, and the following year the city purchased the land. Use as an urban park was intended from the start, originally designated as "Upper City Park", but little development was made in the first decade. The land was developed to house a World's Fair, the World Cotton Centennial of 1884. After the closing of the Fair site it was redeveloped as a park, designed by John Charles Olmsted, nephew of Frederick Law Olmsted (who laid out New York City's Central Park). // This article is about crop plantations. ...
Uptown is a large area of New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
The American Civil War was fought in the United States from 1861 until 1865 between the northern states, popularly referred to as the U.S., the Union, the North, or the Yankees; and the seceding southern states, commonly referred to as the Confederate States of America, the CSA, the Confederacy...
Buffalo Soldiers was the name given by the Plains Indians to the United States Army regiments composed of African-American soldiers that served on the American frontier after the Civil War. ...
Worlds Fair is any of various large expositions held since the mid-19th century. ...
The 1884 Worlds Fair was held in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920) was a noted American landscape architect. ...
Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was a United States landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City. ...
In 1898 the Audubon golf course opened within the park. This article is about the sport of golf. ...
Early in the 20th century part of the park became home to the Audubon Zoo. The Audubon Zoo is a zoo located in New Orleans and is part of the Audubon Nature Institute. ...
Such early and mid 20th century park attractions as the miniature railway, swimming pool, and swan boats in the lagoons were discontinued in the 1970s.
The ring road around the park was closed to automobile traffic at the start of the 1980s, and became a popular jogging and biking route. Karl Benzs Velo (vélo means bicycle in French) model (1894) - entered into the first automobile race 2005 MINI Cooper S. An automobile (also motor car or simply car) is a wheeled passenger vehicle that carries its own motor. ...
In 2002 the golf course was renovated and expanded, to complaints by many non golfing users of the park when the original Olmstead design was violated. Also that same year, the New Orleans city council renamed the park's "Avenger Field" to "David Berger - Avenger Field" in memory of David Mark Berger, a graduate of the adjacent Tulane University, and the other victims of terrorism. David Mark Berger (June 24, 1944 – September 6, 1972) was an American Jewish weightlifter for the Israeli Olympic team in 1972. ...
A couple of the park's old live oak trees were blown down when Hurricane Katrina hit the city in 2005, but as the park is on the section of high ground near the River levees, it was above the flooding of the majority of the city after Katrina. It was used as a makeshift helicopter port and encampment for National Guard troops and relief workers after the storm. Southern live oaks on Skidaway Island, near Savannah, Georgia Live oak is a general term for a number of unrelated oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that happen to share the character of evergreen foliage. ...
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The effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans was catastrophic and long-lasting. ...
A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors consisting of two or more rotor blades. ...
The United States National Guard is a component of the United States Army (the Army National Guard) and the United States Air Force (the Air National Guard). ...
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