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Navarre Information
Navarre is part of the 4th Ward of New Orleans. It is bounded by City Park to
the east, I-610 across which is the Lakeview neighborhood to the north, I-10
(formerly the route of the New Basin Canal) to the west, and City Park Avenue
(formerly Bayou Metairie Road) to the south, across which is Mid City New
Orleans.
The neighborhood includes Delgado Community College, the local Public
Broadcasting Service television station WYES-12 studios, and Greenwood, St.
Patrick, and Holt cemeteries. Most of the rest of the neighborhood is
residential, mostly white middle class and working class, with a smattering of
neighborhood businesses. The main streets in the neighborhood are Canal
Boulevard running north to south and Navarre Avenue running east to west.
At the start of the 19th century what would become Navarre was mostly
undeveloped swamp land a good distance from the developed parts of the young
city along the Mississippi River. The narrow high ground along side Bayou
Metairie became a road, along the sides of which farmland was developed. The
first of the area's important landmarks to be developed was Greenwood Cemetery,
in 1852. The Canal Street, City Park, and Lake Pontchartrain Railway ran along
one edge of the neighborhood on its way out along side the Orleans Canal to Old
Spanish Fort on Lake Pontchartrain. Otherwise, the land after a distance
equivalent of a couple blocks back from Metarie Road was swamp.
The 1880s and 1890s saw the first work at reclaiming the swampland in the area
for development, and by the early 20th century the area back to Florida Avenue
was largely drained. There was substantial development, mostly as white middle
class residential single family homes, in the 1920s. The area in the back
section of Navarre was the site of the United Fruit Company radio facilities,
until it was redeveloped residentially in the 1940s.