st. tammany past and present. st. tammany native american settlements
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St. TammanyPast and Present
St. Tammany Native St. Tammany Native AmericanAmerican
SettlementsSettlements
Pierre le Moyne, Sieur de Iberville
Early European to explore the in the area.
Over 100 years ago tourists crossed Lake Ponchartrain by
steamboat and then a surrey or "tallyho" from Mandeville to Abita
Springs and Covington and beyond. The entire trip from New Orleans would take over 5 hours.
Pictured here are travelers walking to and from a
steamer that is docked on a pier at Mandeville.
Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
There were many public and private pools that took advantage of the natural
springs in St. Tammany Parish.
Mandeville Lakefront Today
This is a photo of an old train ticket from 1874
Try to imagine what the area was like -- in the early 1900's there were over 800 hotel rooms and the trains could bring in over 400 people at a
time.
Soon streetcars
and trolleys were built to
speed the tourist to
their destinations
from the steam boat piers. The first real
train arrived in the late
1880's.
The hotels in the Abita Springs Hotel could accommodate
thousands of travelers each night.
Abita Springs Standard Oil Gas Station
Driving oxen in downtown Covington.
There were many hotels at the beginning of the 1900s.
Covington’s Southern Hotel
Downtown Covington Today
• Besides having a great tourist industry, St. Tammany Parish also it's citizens making a
living from farming, trapping, logging, and as pictured here, making turpentine.
• Extensive, aggressive logging went on in St. Tammany Parish from the 1850's into the
1900's.
Folsom Attraction
Madisonville
Maritime
Museum
Mandeville Trailhead
Pearl River Town Hall
View of Slidell’s First Street in the early 1900's
Slidell Heritage Park
Slidell’s
Historical
Markers
Lake Pontchartrain Boating
Swamp Tours
Pat Brister
Parish President
Jack Strain
St. Tammany Sheriff