The two Lower Ninth Ward areas, including Holy Cross and the Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood in relation to the rest of the city of New Orleans. The Lower 9th Ward is a section of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. As the name implies, it is part of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Image File history File links Lower_ninth_ward. ...
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The Ninth Ward or 9th Ward is a distinctive region of New Orleans, Louisiana that is located in the easternmost downriver portion of the city. ...
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The term "Lower" refers to its location further towards the mouth of the Mississippi River, "down" or "below" the rest of the city in local geographic terminology. The area is sometimes just referred to as the "Lower 9". The area came to national attention for its tragic devastation in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. For the river in Canada, see Mississippi River (Ontario). ...
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The neighborhood borders the Mississippi River to the South, and the border of Saint Bernard Parish to the east. To the west is the Industrial Canal, across which is the Bywater section of New Orleans. The northern or inland boundary is often given as the Florida Canal with Florida Avenue, a levee, and railroad tracks running beside it. Alternatively, the industrial area north of Florida Avenue is sometimes included as being part of the Lower 9th Ward, extending the boundary to the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet. St. ...
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Excluding the industrial and swamp areas north of the Florida Canal, the neighborhood of the Lower 9th Ward is about 1.25 miles (2 km) from east to west and 2 miles (3.2 km) from north to south. Three major avenues cross the neighborhood parallelling the river, each with bridges over the Industrial Canal. Closest to the River is Saint Claude Avenue; about midway through the neighborhood is Claiborne Avenue. Most major businesses serving the neighborhood are on these two avenues, although a smattering of additional neighborhood business are located throughout the area. On the northern "back" side is Florida Avenue. The first two of these three avenues continue into St. Bernard Parish; a continuation of Florida Avenue through and beyond the Parish line has been repeatedly proposed but at present does not exist. Claiborne Avenue is a major thoroughfare in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
Demographics The population is mostly African American, with the majority of the non-African American minority in the section of the neighborhood closer to the river. Although mostly working class, about 60% of the homes in the Lower Ninth Ward were owner occupied.[1] An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black) is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ...
The Lower Ninth Ward has the distinction of being one of only a few areas in the city without housing projects. New Orleans, Louisiana has long been notorious for having some of the roughest, most dangerous housing projects in the country. ...
Notable Residents and Buildings The Lower Ninth Ward is also home to the Jackson Barracks. The barracks now serve as headquarters for the Louisiana National Guard, and had an extensive military museum in the old powder magazine and in a new annex, with a large collection of military items from every American war. The 2000 NRA Shooting Sports Camp and Coaches School was held at Jackson Barracks June 28 – July 2, 2000 Seal of the National Guard Bureau Seal of the Army National Guard Seal of the Air National Guard The United States National Guard is a significant component of the United States armed forces military reserve. ...
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Major sections of the Mississippi River embankment along the Lower Ninth Ward and inside the Jackson Barracks were used for filming the 1994 movie adaptation of Anne Rice's "Interview with the Vampire", starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. Interview with the Vampire is a vampire novel by Anne Rice written in 1973 and published in 1976. ...
Notable Lower 9th Ward residents include musician singer songwriter Fats Domino, NFL star Marshall Faulk, poet & author Kalamu ya Salaam, and rapper Magic. Antoine Dominique Fats Domino (born February 26, 1928) is a classic R&B and rock and roll singer, songwriter and pianist. ...
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Kalamu ya Salaam, born 24 March 1947, is a poet, author, and teacher from the 9th Ward of New Orleans. ...
Magic(Awood Johnson) is a New Orleans hip-hop artist, who first worked the citys underground circuit, then eventually signed with Master Ps No Limit label thanks to the moguls brother, C-Murder. ...
The section on the River side of Saint Claude Avenue which developed as an urban area first is sometimes called the "Holy Cross Neighborhood" for Holy Cross High School, the large Catholic school there, which long drew students not only from the Lower 9th but from throughout the city. Holy Cross High School is a high school and middle school founded in 1879 by the Congregation of Holy Cross in New Orleans, Louisiana. ...
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 The Doullet "Steamboat houses" from the start of the 20th century were long picturesque landmarks of the Holy Cross section of the Lower 9th Ward. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2592x1814, 1769 KB) Summary New Orleans: Doullet Houses or Steamboat Houses in the Lower 9th Ward by the Mississippi River Levee. ...
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History In Louisiana's colonial era this was plantation land. The portion closer to the river was developed for residential use at the start of the 19th century at the same time as the Bywater area. In 1834 the U.S. Army established the Jackson Barracks here. As late as the 1870s the area behind St. Claude was still mostly small farms with scattered residences, and the area on the "woods" (away from the river) side of Claiborne mostly undeveloped cypress swamp. Official language(s) de jure: none de facto: English & French Capital Baton Rouge Largest city New Orleans [1] Area Ranked 31st - Total 51,885 sq mi (134,382 km²) - Width 130 miles (210 km) - Length 379 miles (610 km) - % water 16 - Latitude 29°N to 33°N - Longitude 89°W...
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What became the Lower 9th Ward did not become distinct from the parts of the 9th Ward just upriver until the Industrial Canal was dredged at the start of the 1920s, bisecting the 9th Ward. At this time, people started referring to the area "above" (up river) from the Canal as the "Upper" 9th Ward, and this area as the "Lower". The 1920s is a decade that is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ...
The Industrial Canal prompted development of the land further back along the Canal, and provided steady work for labor in the area. As shipping became containerized in the later 20th century, demand for labor declined with negative economic consequences on the neighborhood
Betsy In 1965, Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans. A levee on the Industrial Canal collapsed, flooding much of the Lower 9th Ward. Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ...
Hurricane Betsy was a powerful hurricane of the 1965 Atlantic hurricane season which caused enormous damage in the Bahamas, Florida, and Louisiana. ...
A levee, levée (from the feminine past participle of the French verb lever, to raise), floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial slope or wall, usually earthen and often parallels the course of a river. ...
President Lyndon B. Johnson visited the devastated flooded area shortly after the storm, and ordered aid for the storm victims. “LBJ†redirects here. ...
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Katrina In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. Multiple breaches in the levees of at least 4 canals resulted in catastrophic flooding of the majority of the city; see Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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The effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, Louisiana was catastrophic and long-lasting. ...
 Ruins of residential area in the Lower 9th Ward, with ING 4727 barge in the background Persistent rumors allege that the levee was deliberately dynamited.[1][2][3][4][5] Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2592x1577, 1589 KB) Summary Hurricane Katrina aftermath in New Orleans: Devastated residential area, Lower 9th Ward, with barge that landed in neighborhood after coming through breach in Industrial Canal visible in background. ...
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Following the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, various conjectures were put forward suggesting that Katrina was not an ordinary natural event, but was instead influenced by human behavior or supernatural forces. ...
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 Damaged photo in floodsilt. Remains of ruined possessions were common on the streets of the Lower 9th Ward for months after the floodwaters had been drained. Nowhere was the devastation greater than in the Lower 9th Ward, especially the portion from Claiborne Avenue back. Storm surge flood waters appear to have poured into the neighborhood from at least three sources. To the east, water flowed in from Saint Bernard Parish, while to the west the Industrial Canal suffered two distinct major breaches: one a block in from Florida Avenue, the second back from Claiborne Avenue. The force of the water did not merely flood homes, but smashed or knocked many off their foundations. A large barge, the ING 4727 (owned by the Ingram Barge Company) came into the neighborhood through the breach near Claiborne Avenue, leveling homes beneath it as it floated in the flood waters. Storm surge was so great that even the highest portions of the Lower 9th were flooded; Holy Cross School which had served as a dry refuge after Betsy was inundated, and even the foot of the River levee, the area's highest point, took on some 2 to 3 feet of water. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1944 × 2592 pixel, file size: 2. ...
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ING 4727 was a barge belonging to Ingram Barge Company that became infamous when it went through a levee and landed in a residential neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina. ...
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As of January 2006, the great devastation and difficulties in restoring basic utilities and city services have made the Lower 9th Ward the last portion of the city of New Orleans not yet officially reopened to residents who wish to return to live, and the only area of the city still under a curfew. Officially residents are allowed in during daylight hours to look, salvage possessions, and leave, although some few have already done extensive work gutting and repairing their damaged homes in preparation to move back. A curfew can be one of the following: An order by the government or by the childs parents for certain persons to return home daily before a certain time. ...
The most severely damaged section of the Ward is the lower elevation section, north of Clairborne Avenue. A Bring Back New Orleans Commission preliminary report suggested making the lower elevation portion of the neighborhood in back of Claiborne in whole or part into park space. The suggestion is vehemently objected to by most Lower 9th Ward residents. The Bring Back New Orleans Commission was founded by New Orleans, Louisiana, Mayor Ray Nagin after the flooding caused by an enormous civil engineering failure in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. ...
A group of residents and Common Ground Collective volunteers broke into Martin Luther King Elementary School in March 2006 to begin cleanup efforts. Not long after, the school board voted to reopen the school. Common Ground Collective formed in Algiers, New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, to provide immediate aid and long-term solidarity along the Gulf Coast. ...
As of late 2006, a small number of local businesses in the area have reopened and residents returned (many living in FEMA trailers). However, much of the area is still little populated and in ruined condition. Work crews continue to remove debris and demolish unrepairable houses daily, but hundreds if not thousands are vacant and gutted, and many more buildings are still little touched since the waters were drained, with ruined possessions still inside severely damaged buildings. FEMA trailer in front of formerly flooded house The term FEMA trailer,[1][2] or FEMA travel trailer, is the name commonly given by the United States Government[1] to many forms of temporary manufactured housing assigned to the victims of Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita by the Federal Emergency...
In 2006, Mayor Ray Nagin threatened to use his powers of eminent domain to seize vacant severely damaged property in all of New Orleans that had not been gutted or scheduled to be gutted before early 2007. Such blighted property has been creating serious problems for returned New Orleanians, including infestations of rats and other vermin. Similar movements to seize abandoned blighted property are in effect in other parishes as well as Mississippi counties effected by the storm. However as hundreds of thousands of locals are still waiting for promised insurance or Road Home money, many of the poor lack resources. A number of land speculators announced plans to build several casinos and business parks in the Lower Ninth Ward [citation needed], using the land obtained from the city government's auction. Local groups such as ACORN have lobbied the city government on behalf of the local landowners not to seize their property, and are continuing to recruit volunteers to engage in the gutting and rebuilding of these homes. The matter is complicated by the apathy expressed by many of the pre-Katrina residents [citation needed], as the neighborhood has almost few stores and schools, and suffers from a high rate of violent crime. Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr. ...
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