Algiers

My Home Town

By Richard Remy Dixon

 Publication Information: Algiers Annexation to New Orleans Centennial Committee (New Orleans): 1990

 Book Description: Hardcover. Very Good condition with crisp binding and strong unbent pages and bookblock, some wear to the edge and corners of the hardcover, some slight tears to the dust jacket.

Algiers went through various periods that associated it with plantations, farming, shipbuilding and ship repairs and railroading. Waves of new citizens came and went ... and many stayed to help make Algiers remain a charming place. For years writers suggested that Algiers reminded them of Mississippi River towns of years gone by. And that visiting old or "upper Algiers" was like traveling into the past.

Truly, its charm remains. Viaducts and foot bridges which crossed railroad yards have long since departed. Its boundaries and extremities have been extended further down the lower coast, even beyond old Aurora Plantation. New Homes and subdivisions have sprung up among oaks, cypress, hackberry and sycamore. - From the inside cover.