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Lower Ninth Ward
New Orleans Neighborhood
Country
United States
State
Louisiana
City
New Orleans
Planning District
District 7, Bywater District
Elevation
0 ft (0.0 m)
Coordinates
29°58′13″N 90°00′46″W / 29.97028°N 90.01278°W / 29.97028; -90.01278Coordinates: 29°58′13″N 90°00′46″W / 29.97028°N 90.01278°W / 29.97028; -90.01278
Area
1.63 sq mi (4.2 km2)
- land 1.59 sq mi (4 km2)
- water 0.04 sq mi (0 km2), 2.45%
Population
1,271 (2010)
Density
780/sq mi (301/km2)
Timezone
CST (UTC-6)
- summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
Area code
504
The two Lower Ninth Ward neighborhoods; Holy Cross and the Lower Ninth Ward
Lower Ninth Ward is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. As the name implies, it is part of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. The Lower Ninth Ward is often thought of as the entire area within New Orleans downriver of the Industrial Canal; however, the City Planning Commission divides this area into the Lower Ninth Ward and Holy Cross neighborhoods.
The term "Lower" refers to its location farther towards the mouth of the Mississippi River, downriver, "down" or "below" the rest of the city. The 9th Ward, like all wards of New Orleans, is a voting district. The 9th Ward was added as a voting district in 1852.[1] The Lower 9th Ward is composed of Ward 9 Districts 1, 2, 4, and 7 which make up the Holy Cross Area and Ward 9 Districts 3, 5, 6, and 8. Higher voting district numbers in the 9th Ward (8-27) are on the upriver side of the Industrial Canal.[2] The area came to international attention for its devastation in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Contents
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1 Geography
1.1 Adjacent neighborhoods
1.2 Boundaries
2 History
2.1 Hurricane Betsy
2.2 Hurricane Katrina
2.3 Recovery efforts
3 Demographics
4 Notable buildings
5 Notable people
6 Education
7 Representation in other media
8 See also
9 External links
10 References
Geography[edit]
Excluding the industrial and swamp areas north of the Florida Canal, the neighborhood of the Lower 9th Ward is about 1.25 mi (2.01 km) from east to west and 2 mi (3.2 km) from north to south. Three major avenues cross the developed portion of the neighborhood, each with bridges over the Industrial Canal. Closest to the River is St. Claude Avenue; about midway through the neighborhood is Claiborne Avenue; Florida Avenue crosses at the northern edge of the historically populated portion of the Lower 9th. Most major businesses serving the neighborhood are located on St. Claude or Claiborne, although a smattering of additional neighborhood business is located throughout the area. While the first two of these three avenues continue into St. Bernard Parish; a continuation of Florida Avenue through and beyond the parish line has been repeatedly proposed but at present does not exist.
Adjacent neighborhoods[edit]
Viavant/Venetian Isles (north)
St. Bernard Parish (east)
Holy Cross (south)
Bywater (west)
Aerial view of part of the Lower 9th, c. 1990s. Holy Cross School at lower right.
Boundaries[edit]
The City Planning Commission defines the boundaries of Lower Ninth Ward as these streets: Florida Avenue, St. Bernard Parish, St. Claude Avenue and the Industrial Canal.[3]
The Lower Ninth Ward is also commonly used to describe a slightly larger area. This area borders the Mississippi River to the South and St. Bernard Parish to the east. To the west is the Industrial Canal, across which is the Bywater section of New Orleans. The northern or inland boundary is often given as the Florida Canal with Florida Avenue, a levee, and railroad tracks running beside it. Alternatively, the industrial area north of Florida Avenue is sometimes included as being part of the Lower 9th Ward, extending the boundary to the southern edge of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.
History[edit]
Building at Jackson Barracks complex, c. 1935. This one was demolished by the WPA that decade.
In Louisiana's colonial era, this area was developed as sugar cane plantations, with narrow lots extending back from the river frontage that provided the transportation and shipping routes. At the start of the 19th century, the portion closer to the river was developed for residential use, at the same time as the Bywater area.
In 1834 the United States Army established the Jackson Barracks here. As late as the 1870s, the area behind St. Claude was still mostly small farms with scattered residences. The area on the "woods" (away from the river) side of Claiborne was mostly undeveloped cypress swamp.
What became the Lower 9th Ward did not become distinct from the upriver parts of the 9th Ward until the start of the 1920s, when the Industrial Canal was dredged. This development bisected the 9th Ward. At this time, people started referring to the area "above" (upriver) from the Canal as the "Upper" 9th Ward, and this area as the "Lower".
The section on the River side of Saint Claude Avenue, which developed as an urban area first, is sometimes called the "Holy Cross Neighborhood" for Holy Cross High School, the large Catholic school. For many years, it attracted students not only from the Lower 9th but from throughout the city.
Construction of the Industrial Canal led to development of the land farther back along the Canal; it provided steady work for labor in the area. As shipping became containerized in the later 20th century, however, demand for labor declined, with negative economic consequences for the neighborhood. Some people left to find work in other areas; others struggled with lower-paying jobs.
Hurricane Betsy[edit]
In 1965, Hurricane Betsy hit New Orleans. A levee on the Industrial Canal collapsed, and much of the Lower 9th Ward was flooded. President Lyndon B. Johnson visited the devastated flooded area shortly after the storm, and ordered aid for the storm victims.
Hurricane Katrina[edit]
At the end of August 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall just east of New Orleans, the fifth deadliest hurricane and the costliest natural disaster in the history of the United States. Multiple breaches in the levees of at least four canals resulted in catastrophic flooding in a majority of the city; see Effect of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans.
Ruins of residential area in the Lower 9th Ward, with ING 4727 barge in the background
Nowhere in the city was the devastation greater than in the Lower 9th Ward, especially the portion from Claiborne Avenue back. This was largely due to the storm surge generated in the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a deep-draft shipping channel built by the Army Corps of Engineers in the late 1950s. The construction destroyed tens of thousands of acres of protective coastal wetlands that once acted as a storm surge buffer for the community.
Storm surge flood waters appear to have poured into the Lower Ninth Ward from at least three sources. To the east, water flowed in from Saint Bernard Parish, while to the west the Industrial Canal suffered two major breaches: one a block in from Florida Avenue, the second back from Claiborne Avenue. The force of the water did not only flood homes, but smashed or knocked many off their foundations. A large barge, the ING 4727 (owned by the Ingram Barge Company), was swept by flood waters into the neighborhood through the breach near Claiborne Avenue, leveling homes beneath it. The storm surge was so great that even the highest portions of the Lower 9th were flooded; Holy Cross School, which had served as a dry refuge after Hurricane Betsy, was inundated. The foot of the Mississippi River levee, the area's highest point, took on some 2 to 3 feet (0.91 m) of water.
The Lower 9th Ward was flooded again by Hurricane Rita a month later in September.
In December 2005, Common Ground Collective volunteers gutted the first house in the area. Volunteers and residents began gutting other houses in the community. Soon after, the Common Ground Collective opened the first distribution center in the area, in order to provide returning residents with water, food and other necessities. No stores had yet re-opened in the area.
Due to the great devastation and lack of population and services, the Lower Ninth Ward was the last area of the city still under a curfew half a year after the disaster. Officially, residents were allowed in during daylight hours to look, salvage possessions, and leave, although some few had already done extensive work gutting and repairing their damaged homes in preparation to move back. By January 2006, the widespread damages and difficulties in restoring basic utilities and city services still prevented the official reopening of the Lower 9th Ward to residents who wished to return to live.
The most severely damaged section of the Ward is the lower elevation section, north of Claiborne Avenue. A Bring Back New Orleans Commission preliminary report suggested making this area in whole or part into park space because of the high risk of future flooding. Most Lower 9th Ward residents have strongly objected to this proposal, but outsiders worry about the high risk of future flooding in the area.
In March 2006 a group of residents and Common Ground Collective volunteers broke into Martin Luther King Elementary School to begin cleanup efforts. Not long after, the state school officials agreed to repair the school. The school has subsequently become a Recovery School District charter school and is running at full capacity. It is a rarity in that it has no management company. The school is operated by the faculty and administration. When asked about it, Dr. Hicks, the school's long-time principal said, "We didn't have a management company before and we don't need one now."[citation needed]
As of late 2006, a small number of local businesses in the area reopened, and residents began to return (many are living in FEMA trailers as they try to rebuild). But, much of the area was still little-populated and in ruined condition. Work crews continued to remove debris and demolish unrepairable houses daily, but hundreds if not thousands were vacant and gutted. Many more buildings have hardly been touched since the waters were drained, and ruined possessions are inside severely damaged buildings.
Damaged photo in flood silt. Remains of ruined possessions were common on the streets of the Lower 9th Ward for months after the floodwaters had been drained.
In 2006, Mayor Ray Nagin threatened to use his powers of eminent domain to seize vacant, severely damaged properties in all of New Orleans that had not been gutted or scheduled to be gutted before early 2007. Such blighted properties had been creating serious problems for returned New Orleanians, including infestations of rats and other vermin. Similar actions to seize abandoned blighted property are in effect in other Louisiana parishes, as well as in Mississippi counties affected by the storm. However, as hundreds of thousands of locals were still waiting for promised insurance or Road Home money, many of the poor lacked resources to work on their houses. The neighborhood had few stores and only a handful of schools reopened.
Recovery efforts[edit]
On December 3, 2007, Make It Right Foundation, founded by the actor Brad Pitt, committed to rebuild 150 houses in the Lower Ninth Ward. The houses are sustainable, energy-efficient and safe.[4] Make It Right homes were designed by award-winning architects from New Orleans and around the world, including Frank Gehry, Shigeru Ban, Hitoshi Abe and Thom Mayne. Said Pitt: “I walked into it blind, just thinking, ‘People need homes; I know people who make great homes.'"[5]
In the spring of 2008, Build Now,[6] a local, non-profit homebuilder, began working to bring New Orleans families back home. It constructed site-built, stilt houses on hurricane-damaged lots. The homes reflect the style and quality of traditional New Orleans architecture but are built above potential flood waters. Build Now is in the process of bringing more than a dozen New Orleans families back home; nine houses are currently under construction in the Upper and Lower Ninth Ward areas, Lakeview and Gentilly. The organization has moved three New Orleans families back home.
As of March 2009, hundreds of houses have been rebuilt, and dozens of new homes have been constructed. Residents are returning home. Volunteers continue to come to the area en masse, working for dozens of organizations including Common Ground Relief, formerly Common Ground Collective; and lowernine.org, a grassroots organization that coordinates volunteers' and residents' efforts in rebuilding homes in the Lower Ninth Ward. As of October 2017, lowernine.org has fully rebuilt 85 Lower Ninth Ward homes, and completed repair and renovation projects on over 250 more properties.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hurricane Katrina aftermath in the Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans.
Residents and volunteers are striving to make the Lower Ninth Ward a sustainable community. They are working to restore the local wetlands. It is widely believed that were it not for the extensive canal dredging to support commercial development, resulting in subsequent wetlands subsidence, the Lower Ninth Ward would not have suffered such extensive flooding during Katrina.
In March 2012, the New York Times reported that
"[t]he neighborhood has become a dumping ground for many kinds of unwanted things," and "it no longer resembled an urban, or even suburban environment. Where once there stood orderly rows of single-family homes with driveways and front yards, there was jungle."[7]
As of December 2015, the Lower Ninth Ward still has many empty lots and vacant heavily damaged houses.
Demographics[edit]
As of the census of 2000, there were 14,008 people, 4,820 households, and 3,467 families residing in the neighborhood.[8] The population density was 9,731 /mi² (3,730 /km²).
As of the census of 2010, there were 2,842 people, 1,061 households, and 683 families residing in the neighborhood.[8]
Notable buildings[edit]
The Doullut "steamboat houses" from the start of the 20th century are landmarks of the Holy Cross section of the Lower 9th Ward
The Lower Ninth Ward is home to the Jackson Barracks. The barracks now serve as headquarters for the Louisiana National Guard. The complex had an extensive military museum in the old powder magazine and in a new annex, with a large collection of military items from every American war. The 2000 NRA Shooting Sports Camp and Coaches School was held at Jackson Barracks from June 28 – July 2, 2000.
The Doullut steamboat houses are located on either side of Egania Street at numbers 400 and 503. The first house, closer to the river, was built in 1905 by Captain Milton P. Doullut, a riverboat pilot, as his home. The second was built in 1913 for his son Paul Doullut. In 1977 both houses were designated historic landmarks. The houses have two notable design influences, the first being the steamboats of the period, the second being the Japanese exhibit at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis (Louisiana Purchase Exposition). Notably, Mary Doullut (wife of Milton) was also a river boat captain, who worked on the river for over 30 years; she is believed to be the first woman to have held a Mississippi riverboat pilot's license.
Notable people[edit]
Pat Barry, kickboxer and mixed martial artist
Fats Domino, musician-singer-songwriter
Marshall Faulk, NFL star
Kalamu ya Salaam, poet and author
Magic, rapper and musician
Fred Luter, Baptist minister, elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention in 2012
Robert Pack, New Orleans Pelicans assistant coach, former NBA guard, former University of Southern Cal star.
Eldridge Recasner, former NBA player.
Dawn Richard, singer-songwriter, actress and animator
Education[edit]
The former Holy Cross High School
New Orleans Public Schools operates district public schools, while Recovery School District oversees charter schools.
Dr. King Charter School (K-12) is located in the Lower 9th.[9]
Alfred Lawless High School was the only public high school that operated in the Lower 9th until Hurricane Katrina affected New Orleans in August 2005. The previous Holy Cross High School campus was located in the Lower Ninth Ward. In August 2007 students from Carver High School and Marshall Middle School began studying at temporary trailers on the site of Holy Cross. In September of that year the students were to move to another set of trailers in the original Carver/Marshall campus in the Desire Area.[10]
Representation in other media[edit]
The 1994 film adaptation of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise, was filmed along sections of the Mississippi River embankment and inside the Jackson Barracks.
When the Levees Broke (2006), a documentary about the Katrina disaster directed by Spike Lee, was produced and shown on HBO. The film covered damage in the Lower Ninth Ward and other areas of the city.
See also[edit]
New Orleans portal
New Orleans neighborhoods
New Orleans, Louisiana
Wards of New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina
Oil Storm
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans.
Lower 9th Ward travel guide from Wikivoyage
Lower 9th Ward neighborhood snapshot dealing with the area in back of St. Claude Avenue
Holy Cross neighborhood snapshot dealing with the area from St. Claude to the River
Photographs of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath in the Lower Ninth Ward
Holy Cross School closes at the Wayback Machine (archived September 26, 2007)
Rebuilding the 9th Ward at the Wayback Machine (archived October 9, 2013) A Slideshow of photographic portraits and interview recordings of residents of the 9th Ward, focusing on the post-Katrina rebuilding process
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "New Orleans Districts and Wards". Mardi Gras Digest. Archived from the original on 2010-07-01. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
Jump up ^ "New Orleans City Council District E" (PDF). New Orleans City Council. Retrieved 2010-04-22.
Jump up ^ Greater New Orleans Community Data Center. "Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood". Retrieved 2008-06-21.
Jump up ^ Make It Right 9
Jump up ^ Thompson, Richard. "Brad Pitt sees his Lower 9th Ward homebuilding efforts as a model for other areas". The New Orleans Advocate. Published online August 16, 2015. Retrieved September 3, 2015.
Jump up ^ http://buildnownola.com
Jump up ^ Rich, Nathaniel. "Jungleland: The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans Gives New Meaning to "Urban Growth"". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
^ Jump up to: a b "Lower Ninth Ward Neighborhood". Greater New Orleans Community Data Center. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
Jump up ^ Stokes, Stephanie. "MLK school reopens in Lower 9th." Times Picayune. Sunday June 10, 2007. Retrieved on August 4, 2012.
Jump up ^ Maxwell, Lesli A. "Up From the Ruins." Education Week. Published online on September 27, 2007. Published in print on October 3, 2007 as "Up From the Ruins." Retrieved on April 1, 2013.
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