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<blockquote data-quote="ok2bclever" data-source="post: 48093">The issue wasn&#039;t who floated by or put foot on land first. &nbsp;It was who settled it and who built the town. &nbsp;If you discount the native Americans in the area the French first settled and named the town and the Spanish came in and had a lot to do with the growth and expansion of the town. &nbsp;The mix was the beginning of what they call Creole now. &nbsp;It originally was founded on high ground and was near all this great water transport, the Mississippi, the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ponchatrain. &nbsp;It was an ideal and intelligent location. &nbsp;The steady sinking of the area and erosion of the protective marshes, barrier island chain, etc has steadily made is seem like a dumb and dumber location for a town and it is, but it still is a great location for commerce and transportation due to the same reasons it was originally, perhaps more so. &nbsp;That doesn&#039;t mean it is a good location for residential development though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ok2bclever, post: 48093"] The issue wasn't who floated by or put foot on land first. It was who settled it and who built the town. If you discount the native Americans in the area the French first settled and named the town and the Spanish came in and had a lot to do with the growth and expansion of the town. The mix was the beginning of what they call Creole now. It originally was founded on high ground and was near all this great water transport, the Mississippi, the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ponchatrain. It was an ideal and intelligent location. The steady sinking of the area and erosion of the protective marshes, barrier island chain, etc has steadily made is seem like a dumb and dumber location for a town and it is, but it still is a great location for commerce and transportation due to the same reasons it was originally, perhaps more so. That doesn't mean it is a good location for residential development though. [/QUOTE]

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