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New Orleans: Bayou St. John and Magnolia Bridge
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The Magnolia Bridge, which crosses the Bayou St. John at Harding Drive, was built around the middle of the 19th century linking Bayou Road (today’s Bell Street) with Metairie Road (City Park Avenue). Originally built as a swinging bridge for streetcar traffic, it allowed small ship traffic to pass when rotated parallel to the bayou. It was the only span over the bayou until the completion of the Esplanade Avenue Bridge in 1856. Magnolia Bridge was restored in 1989 and today carries only pedestrian traffic.
The Bayou St. John, a still narrow waterway bordering City Park on the east and extending about 7 miles from Lake Pontchartrain to just past Orleans Avenue, is the only remaining bayou in New Orleans. Navigable by canoes and small vessels, Native Americans were using the bayou, which they knew as Bayouk Choupic, since pre-Columbian times. The first European settlers in the area, believed to have been trappers, coexisted with Native Americans in the early 18th century. It is named after John the Baptist, whose nativity (St. John’s Eve, every June 23), the most important day in the year for voodoo practitioners, was celebrated on the bayou’s banks in the 1800’s.
The bayou, in its natural state, extended much further than today. Over time, it helped drain a good portion of present day New Orleans’ swampy land into Lake Pontchartrain. Colonial era and early 19th century maps show it had tributaries reaching into the Broadmoor neighborhood, the New Orleans Central Business District just back from St. Charles Avenue above Lee Circle, the Carrollton neighborhood, the Treme neighborhood, and a branch connecting to Bayou Gentilly.
A portage between the Bayou and the Mississippi attracted the earliest American settlers, who in 1701 built Fort St. Jean, or as it would later come to be known, the Old Spanish Fort, to protect the route. In colonial times, the portage trail became Grand Route St. John, and later replaced by Esplanade Avenue. The Carondelet Canal was dug to connect the back of the city along the River with the Bayou, and the Bayou dredged to accommodate larger vessels. In the early 20th century, when commercial use, the Carondelet Canal was filled in.
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