New Orleans and The French Quarter (Le Vieux Carré)
You'll need to zoom in (double click) on the map to be able to see the names of the streets in downtown New Orleans. Interesting names. Can you find the streets Dauphine, Bourbon, Toulouse, Chartres, Esplanade Avenue, Elysian Fields (!) or Tchoupitouas? You can even see the street where my grandparents lived on the far west side of New Orleans, on Coliseum Street!
I lived to the north of the city in an area called Gentilly. Can you find it on this google map? Try zooming by clicking + at the bottom right hand corner.
Jane
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Tchoupitouas --> The name of this street comes from the name of an extinct Indian tribe that perhaps means "those who live at the river" in Choctaw (hacha-pit-itula).
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