re: Home burglar shot dead in Carrolton Area of Uptown NOLA

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Are you 100% certain it ran all the way to the river?

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a long long time ago. But then it was filled in, and ended in a basin. Hence the name "NEW Basin canal"
I think before that it had some French name.

But yes, in the real old days of sailing, you couldn't vome up the Mississippi in a ship,you had to go through lake borgne and then into Ponchartrain and then take Bayou St john into the city. At that time the Bayou was much bigger and was a natural Lake to river water way.

People dug many news canals, the New Basin being the largest.

It's end was actually at the foot of Rampart st.
But Canals started to get filled in en mass when the Yellow fever epidemic broke out. Though the New Basin was around partially until the middle of the 20th century.