New Orleans Facts Table of Contents History of the Big Easy 4 A Problematic Landscape 10 City of Music Saintly Sports Crescent City Sights Local Flavor Timeline Founded 1718 Land area 169 square miles 272 square kilometers Elevation minus 8 feet minus 2 4 meters Previous name La Nouvelle Orléans Population 378 715 Average Daytime Temperatures Winter 64 degrees Fahrenheit 17 8 degrees Celsius Spring 78 degrees Fahrenheit 25 6 degrees Celsius Summer 90 degrees Fahrenheit 32 2 degrees Celsius Fall 79 degrees Fahrenheit 26 1 degrees Celsius Glossary Index Show What You Know Websites to Visit Ethnic Diversity White non Hispanic 30 5 Black African American 60 2 Asian 2 9 Hispanic Latino 5 2 City Nicknames The Big Easy Crescent City About the Author Number of Annual Visitors 9 520 000 Louisiana United States New Orleans New Orleans
History of the Big Easy New Orleans Louisiana was founded by French colonists in 1817 They named the city La Nouvelle Orléans after the Duke of Orleans The city fell under Spanish rule in 1763 but the French got it back just in time to sell it to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 ALBERTA SASKATCHEWAN CANADA MONTANA NORTH DAKOTA MINNESOTA SOUTH DAKOTA WYOMING IOWA NEBRASKA Denver COLORADO St Louis KANSAS MISSOURI NEW MEXICO OKLAHOMA ARKANSAS TEXAS LOUISIANA New MEXICO Orleans 4
During the Revolutionary War 1775 1783 New Orleans was an important port for smuggling military equipment and supplies to the rebels The British tried to take New Orleans during the War of 1812 but General Andrew Jackson stopped them GENERAL JACKSON LATER BECAME PRESIDENT JACKSON YOU CAN FIND HIS FACE IN YOUR WALLET HIS IMAGE 15 ON THE 20 BILL President Andrew Jackson 1767 1845 New Orleans Notes The Louisiana Purchase was much bigger than just the state of Louisiana The deal included about 827 000 square miles 225,329 square kilometers and cost 15 million 5
