Search New Orleans History ~~ Lake Pontchartrain:

1832-1950s - New Basin Canal
Built by the Irish New Orleans to connect the city with the Lake.

Pointe Aux Herbes Lighthouse

Pitot House -- National Register of Historic Places
1440 Moss Street on Bayou St. John

The Camps
New Orleans Shotgun & Bargeboard structures

1833 to present, St. Charles Avenue Streetcar Line - An ASME Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark
The oldest surviving interurban-urban passenger rail transportation system in the United States at one time transported fun seekers to the Lake.

1832 to present, Milneburg Light (also known as the Port Pontchartrain Light)
Near Elysian Fields Avenue at the lake

Bayou St. John
The first connection of the City to the Lake.