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The Best Attractions In Metairie

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Metairie is a census-designated place in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States, and is part of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area. With a population at the 2010 census of 138,481, Metairie is the largest community in Jefferson Parish and the fifth-largest CDP in the United States. It is an unincorporated area that would be Louisiana's fourth-largest city if it were incorporated. The zip codes that serve the community are 70001–70006. Métairie is the French term for a small tenant farm which paid the landlord with a share of the produce, also known as sharecropping. In the 1760s, many of the original French farmers were tenants; after the Civil W...
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The Best Attractions In Metairie

  • 1. Lafreniere Park Metairie
    Lafreniere Park is the largest park in Metairie, Louisiana. The park is funded by local residents surrounding the park, and a few dollars are added onto their water bill every month.
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  • 2. Shrine on Airline Metairie
    Shrine on Airline, formerly known as Zephyr Field, is a 10,000-seat baseball park in Metairie, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans. Opened in 1997, the ballpark hosted the 1998 and 2001 Conference USA Baseball Tournaments, and the 1999 Sun Belt Conference Baseball Tournament. Shrine on Airline was also the site of the Class 5A Louisiana High School Athletic Association baseball tournament in 2004 and 2005. The facility also hosts LHSAA football games, concerts and events.
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  • 4. Lakeside Shopping Center Metairie
    Lakeside Shopping Center is a mall located at 3301 Veterans Memorial Boulevard in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, Louisiana. It first opened in 1960, as the first regional shopping mall in New Orleans and is the largest and one of the busiest malls in the New Orleans metro area. Lakeside is a 967,000 sq ft mall with four major retail anchors . There are also more than 120 stores and restaurants. Lakeside once operated a 5-screen movie theater in a satellite complex near Dillard's but competition from newer stadium style theaters forced its closure and its eventual demolition for additional satellite retail space in 2000. The smaller Clearview Mall, a property opened in 1966 and located about 2 miles to the West on Veterans Memorial Boulevard, had never operated a movie theater on its p...
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  • 7. Whitney Plantation Wallace Louisiana
    The Whitney Plantation Historic District is a museum devoted to slavery in the Southern United States. The district, including the main house and outbuildings, is preserved near Wallace, in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, on the River Road along the Mississippi River. The plantation was started in 1752 by German immigrants Ambroise Haydel and his wife, and their descendants owned it until 1867.The museum, comprising main portions of the 2,000-acre plantation property, opened its doors to the public for the first time in December 2014. It was founded by John Cummings, a trial attorney from New Orleans who has spent more than $8 million of his own fortune on this long-term project, and worked on it for nearly 15 years. The director of research is a Senegalese scholar, Ibrahima Seck, ...
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  • 9. Oak Alley Plantation Vacherie
    Quercus virginiana, also known as the southern live oak, is an evergreen oak tree native to the southeastern United States. Though many other species are loosely called live oak, the southern live oak is particularly iconic of the Old South. Many very large and old specimens of live oak can be found today in the deep southern United States.
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  • 11. Destrehan Plantation Destrehan
    Destrehan is a census-designated place in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 11,535 at the 2010 census, an increase of 275 over the 2000 tabulation of 11,260. The community is named after Jean Noël Destréhan , who was twice President of the Orleans Territory's legislative council during his service there in 1806 and 1811. He was elected to the United States Senate when Louisiana became a state in 1812, but he resigned after a month. He served in the Louisiana State Senate from 1812 to 1817.Destrehan Plantation, his former home, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The main house has been restored and is one of the attractions on the Great River Road along the Mississippi River. In general terms, Destrehan is more country than neighboring Ke...
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