if you draw a line from this body of water to the high-rises, that marks that two miles portage trail. butas going through swamps, this trail was just a couple feet above the swamp lands, and that made it dry terrestrial portage. we are going to follow bayou st. john more closely, making a right. after the founding of the city, the was an early plantation region. dairy, ask farms and well as larger commodity plantations. we have examples of colonial era plantation houses here. in a moment we will see a 1788 plantation house that is known as the old spanish customs house , which also embodies that great hereof -- it's right over -- this is one of my favorite streets in the city. it has a fantastic name, grand route st. john. notice the double pitched roof, the galleries, the center chimney. this -- imagine different dispersedof that size throughout the french quarter. that was what early french colonial new orleans would have looked like. we are on it right now that slightly elevated ridge that al lowed for foot passage between bayou st. john and the french quarter. you would have had

river lakenstead, come through pontchetrain and up this little bayo disembark and take a two mile portage route to the mississippi river. you could get there without going up the mississippi river. new orleans was established at that point and that is today's french quarter. as we come up this overpass, you will see bayou st. john. if you draw a line from this water body in the foreground to justice to the left of the high-rises there, that marks the little two-mile trail. it was going through swap, but this particular route was just a couple of feet above the swamplands, and that made a dry portage. st. johning over bayou right now and we will be following it more closely here, making a right. -- after the founding of the city, this was an early plantation region here. small truck farms and dairies as well as some larger commodity plantations. we have a couple of examples of old colonial era plantation houses here. a 1788ment, we will see asation house that is known the old spanish customs house, which also embodies that great look -- it's right over here. this is one of my favorite stre

disembark and take a two mile portage route through the banks of the mississippi river so you can geto the mississippi not going up the mississippi so for that reason, the end the established new orleans at that point. as we come over this overpass, you will see bayou st. john. if you draw a line from this water bodies in the foreground to just to the left of the high-rises, that marks that little two mile portage trail. it was going through swamps but this particular route was just a couple of feet of all the swamplands and that made it dry celestial portage. we're over by the st. john right now and we are following more forcefully here, taking our right and because this was after the establishment of the city, this was an early lamentation region. truck farms and dairies as well as some larger commodity plantations. we have a couple examples of old colonial era plantation houses here. and in a moment, we will see a 1788 plantation house that is known as the old spanish customs house which also embodies that great look right over here. this is one of my favorite streets in the city.

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