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Spanish Fort, also known as Old Spanish Fort, Fort St. Jean, and Fort St. John (Spanish: Fuerte de San Juan del Bayou), is a historic place in New Orleans, Louisiana, formerly the site of a fort and later an amusement park.
A small fort was erected in 1701 before the founding of the city of New Orleans by the French where Bayou St. John empties into Lake Pontchartrain. The settlers sought to protect the important trade route along Bayou St. John.
7 Δεκ 2018 · Discover Old Spanish Fort in New Orleans, Louisiana: Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.
Bayou St. John (French: Bayou Saint-Jean) is a bayou within the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. [1] The grand Bayou St. John in 1728. The Bayou as a natural feature drained the swampy land of a good portion of what was to become New Orleans, into Lake Pontchartrain.
Orleans residents simply as Old Spanish Fort. The last name remains in use today, more than 180 years after the fort itself was decommissioned and after its use as a hotel, a fashionable resort and an amusement park.
Near its mouth, the French built a small fort in 1701, before the founding of the City of New Orleans. After Louisiana passed to Spanish control, a larger brick fort was constructed at the site of the neglected old French fortification.
600 Beauregard Ave., New Orleans 70124. Originally named Fort St. John of the Bayou, this fort was constructed in 1701 by the French and maintained by the Spanish government because of the bayou’s strategic location.
