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Plan of the division of a portion of the city commons located between the city and the property reserved by Congress for use of the Orleans Navigation Company by Jacques Tanesse, 1810. The land reserved by Congress was to be used by the Navigation Company to dig a canal to connect the Mississippi with the existing Carondelet Canal/Bayou St. John outlet to Lake Pontchartrain. The Canal was never built, of course, but it did give its name to Canal Street, shown on the plan, lined with trees, as the chemin publique (public road).
     [Louisiana Map Collection, MaM 810/3; MS3]