+NEW ORLEANS ARCHITECTURE+ volume iii, +"jefferson city"+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >arrived by mail yesterday and reveals +SOME VERY VALUABLE INFORMATION+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +COUTURIER PLANTATION+ (OCTOBER 1737) >as i have written previously was a huge +FORMER BIENVILLE+ >swath of uptown nola land straddling +NAPOLEON AVE. AT THE RIVER+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +FRENCH CROWN AGENT+ >francois joseph couturier (pierre's father) apparently was a king's representive w/ +THE FRENCH MARINE BUREAU+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +BIENVILLE'S PLANTATION+ >francois saucier who we know was the king's surveyor and dusseau-degruy +CHOUACHAS JUNGLE+ >plaquemine neighbor of the famous +ILL-FATED KING'S LAND GRANT+ >surveyed this land (1737) for bienville ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >(bienville had been ordered to +OUT OF FAVOR+ >dispose of his huge land grant) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +VOISIN PLANTATION+ >synchronistically, pierre voisin whose family we know from our research in +RENNES LE CHATEAU+ >as long involved knights templars (LATER PARIS) >had owned the adjacent land. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +THE COUTURIER PLANTATION+ >when surveyed, featured two houses a barn, a brick dovecote and the cabins for two african families. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +CROWN CONNECTIONS+ >the couturiers relative wealth gave them the means to expand this original indigo plantation. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +FOUCHER PLANTATION+ >nearby, helped form uptown new orleans all connected by the "king's highway" +NOW TCHOUPITOULAS STREET+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +MARIANNE COUTURIER+ >wed our joseph verloin degruy to form an important heritage for many of >us descendents of that union< ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +COUTURIER'S @ MADISONVILLE+ >(later they settled in st tammany parish near degruy's madisonville plantation. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +ETIENNE ROY+ >related to the famed chauvin brothers owned the largest plantation house +BIENVILLE LAND GRANT+ +SEPTEMBER, 1723+ >in this uptown area before his death. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +LOUIS PIOT deLAUNAY+ >was another pioneer plantation owner along the "king's highway" as many different crops were tried such as +TOBACCO-RICE-INDIGO+ before debore's great success w/ +SUGAR CANE+ ^^^^^^^ +LIVAUDAIS PLANTATION+ >another degruy family link was very important between foucher and +CREOLE NOBILITY+ >couturier plantations and a +DELACHAISE BRICKWORKS+ >large brick works arose... ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +ADJACENT TO FOUCHER STREET+ +AS LARGER PLANTATION HOUSES+ >sugar boom = great wealth< +WERE CONSTRUCTED+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +FAUBURG BOULIGNY+ >became the larget fauburg of the "jefferson city" as louis bouligny acquired the land of famed +GEN. WADE HAMPTON+ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +HAMPTON-WASHINGTON LINK +W/ LAFAYETTE & PRINCE MURAT+ >reminding us of the thomas jefferson interest in old creole new orleans +WIFES CREOLE LINK+ >bolstered by general lafayette< ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +WHO WAS GRANTED NOLA+ +CREOLE PROPERTY+ ^^^^^^^^^^^ gene ray, san diego, california