Audubon Park (historically French: Plantation de BorÃÆ'Â © ) is a city park located in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. Approximately 350 hectares. The park is about six miles west of downtown New Orleans and sits on land purchased by the city in 1871. It borders on one side by the Mississippi River and on the other by St. Charles Avenue, directly across from Tulane University and Loyola University. The park is named in honor of artist and naturalist John James Audubon, who began living in New Orleans in 1821.
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History and features
The land that is now a park is a plantation in the colonial and early state states. It was used by Confederate and Union troops in the American Civil War, and as a staging ground for the Buffalo Army. At the time of its establishment it was the last undeveloped package of what became the center of New Orleans. This area was annexed by the City of New Orleans, along with communities around Jefferson City and Greenville in 1870, and the following year the city bought land.
Used as a city park meant from the start, the "Upper City Park" was originally chosen as the name to differentiate the park from City Park, but some improvements occurred in the first decade. This new garden accommodated the World Fair shortly thereafter, the World Cotton Centennial of 1884. After the closing of the exhibition, the construction of the park began in earnest. Most of the exhibition buildings were destroyed, with the exception of the Horticultural Hall - which remained in the park until it was destroyed in the New Orleans storm of 1915. The only important reminder about the fair to remain in the parks of the 21st century is the large ore iron ore from the Alabama State exhibition ( which in local knowledge is often misidentified as a meteorite). Audubon Park's present form largely follows a design designed by John Charles Olmsted, head of the famous Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture practice.
At the beginning of the 20th century, most of the parks were home to Audubon Zoo. The zoo received a significant increase in the hands of the Job Progress Administration, and again from the 1970s onwards. Many of the early and mid-20th century park attractions such as mini trains, the very large Whitney Young public pool, swan boats in the lagoon, and the carousel were closed, dismantled and/or discontinued in the 1970s, although the public is much smaller. the pool was built in the 1990s adjacent to the original Young's pool location.
The park has a sports field and picnic facilities along the Mississippi River, in an area called Riverview Park. The river part of Audubon Park is known for its colloquialism as "The Fly", a nearly forgotten reference to the modernist butterfly shelter-shaped river shelter built in the 1960s and destroyed in the 1980s as a result of severe damage in the morning misty in the hands of river traffic that missed.
The ring road around the park was closed to car traffic in the early 1980s and became a popular 2.1 kilometer walking, jogging and biking route. The 2.2-kilometer landline located around the park is also popular for runners looking for less crowded routes.
Some of the old living oaks in the park were destroyed when Hurricane Katrina hit town in 2005, but because the park is entirely located on high ground consisting of a natural embankment of the Mississippi River, it is spared from the floods experienced by most cities. after Katrina. Audubon Park is used as an emergency helicopter port and camp for National Guard troops and aid workers after the storm.
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Athletic facilities
In 1898 the Audubon golf course opened in the park. In 2002, the golf course was renovated and converted into most of Par 3's executive courses, to complaints from many non-golf users from the park, who alleged that the original Olmsted Brothers design was being tainted. The Heymann Memorial Conservatory, closed down years earlier, was destroyed to accommodate the renovation of golf courses and new golf clubs. Also in 2002, the New Orleans city council renamed the park "Avenger Field" to "David Berger - Avenger Field" in memory of David Mark Berger, an athlete and graduate of Tulane University who was arrested and killed in the 1972 Olympic hostage crisis. The field is officially dedicated to Berger memory on June 10, 2013.
Wildlife
Ochsner Island on the east side of the park has captivity which is one of the main birding spots in Greater New Orleans. The island attracts hundreds of vines, including large herons, cattle buffalo, snowy herons, ibis, small blue bamboos, green storks, night lizards, and others. The park is also home to cormorant and double-crested anhinga, as well as many duck species. Recently, duck whistling black began to use the lagoon in the park as a stopover for their migration.
References
External links
- Audubon Park
- Fodor Online Travel Guide
- Postcard Vintage Audubon Park
- Live Oaks Image in Audubon Park
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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