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Title: Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Lloyd, James T. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fitch, John, 1743-1798. (from old catalog) Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815. (from old catalog) Steamboat disasters Steam-navigation Railroads
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio, J. T. Lloyd & co. Chicago, Ill., D. B. Cooke & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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warehouse and anotherwretched building which had been intended for a store, but was used as a chapel. In thefame year, some German emigrants, after whom the German coast is named, arrived at thislocation, having changed their original intention to make a settlement in Arkansas. A memo-rablo hurricane visited the place in this year, and destroyed nearly all tho buildings. In 1727the Jesuits and Ursuline nuns arrived ; tho former remained until the expulsion of their orderfrom France, Spain, and Naples, in 1763, compelled them to leave Louisiaii:u Their entireproperty in this region was confiscated ; their lands, which were then .sold by tho Frenchgovernment for $186,000, are now worth not less than ?20,000,000. In 1730 two buildings whichstill remain on the upper side of tho Cathedral were erected. The first visitation of tho yellowfever occurred in 1709, being introduced, as it is said, by an English vessel, with a cargo of (265) MAP OF THE OHIO ,—X 0 . 24 . 5^ Owensboro Enterprise
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SKETCH OF NEW ORLEANS. 257 flavM from Africa. Four years before this time, the first Rritish vessels vijiled this plnce, orrather came to anchor at Lafayette, where they traded with the planters and natives. In 1769the colony was ceded to Spain, the population of the whole province being then 5,556 whites,and nearly as many blacks. In 1770 the river Wiw frozen for several yards on both sides. In1782 permission was obtained for the building of a custom-house. In 1785 the Americans of th«We.t, and of Philadelphia began to trade with New Orleans. In 17SS nine hundred houses weredestroyed by fire, which broke out on Good Friday, in a chapel on Chartres street. In 1789many Americans settled in the neighborhood. In 1791 the first company of French comediansarrived. In 1792 the Baron Carondolet became governor of the provinco. He divided tbocity into four wards, established a night-watch, and lighted the streets. To defray the expensesof those improvements, a tax of $1.12i was levied on eac

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