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Carrollton (New Orleans, Louisiana)

USA / Louisiana / Westwego / New Orleans, Louisiana
 neighbourhood, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, draw only border

This was a east portion of what was the city of Carrollton, Louisiana, before it was annexed to the city of New Orleans in the 19th century. The town of Carrollton began on the site of the McCarty plantation in what was then Jefferson Parish. The plantation was acquired in 1831 by real estate investors Laurent Millaudon, John Slidell, Samuel Kohn, and the New Orleans Canal and Banking Company. In 1833 they hired surveyor Charles F. Zimpel to subdivide the land, and the new town was given the name Carrollton.

The principal factor in the early development of the town was the New Orleans and Carrollton Railroad. By 1836 steam cars were commuting from Carrollton to New Orleans every two hours, seven days a week. The Jefferson and Lake Pontchartrain Railroad, begun in 1851, ran from Carrollton to Lake Pontchartrain, where steamers from across the lake and Mobile docked. With their terminals in Carrollton, these two railroads were responsible for a real estate boom in the town. Carrollton had 36 houses in 1841; a decade later its population had grown to 1,470.

Because of the railroad link, Carrollton developed as a “bedroom” suburb of New Orleans. It was essentially a rural village populated by middle and upper class New Orleanians.

Today, part of this neighborhood is known as "Black Pearl," introduced in the 1970s, being derived from the historically majority Black population and the name of "Pearl Street"
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Coordinates:   29°56'26"N   90°7'37"W
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