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    Gert Town is a neighborhood in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the home to Xavier University of Louisiana and is near Mid-City. Gert Town played...
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  • Blue Plate Mayonnaise (category Manufacturing companies based in New Orleans)
    until 1941 when production was moved to the Blue Plate Building in Gert Town, New Orleans. Reily Foods purchased Blue Plate in 1974 and continued to use the...
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  • Tami Lynn (category Rhythm and blues musicians from New Orleans)
    the song "I'm Gonna Run Away From You". Gloria Brown was born in Gert Town, New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended school with Allen Toussaint and Ellis Marsalis...
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    piece of the McCarty plantation, grew out of the town of Carrollton, a suburb outside of New Orleans. Before the 1920s, when development began, Hollygrove...
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    Merry Clayton (category Rhythm and blues musicians from New Orleans)
    their contributions to the music industry. Clayton was born in Gert Town, New Orleans, Louisiana, and was given the name "Merry" because she was born...
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    Park was a noted amusement park in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1902 to 1930. It was located in the city's Gert Town section, on the downtown side of Carrollton...
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  • philosopher and university professor Valeska Gert (1892-1978), German Jewish dancer and cabaret artist Gert Town, New Orleans, a city neighborhood This disambiguation...
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    20th century, now a mixed commercial and residential area. The Gert Town, New Orleans neighborhood continues back to Xavier University of Louisiana, at...
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    New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or The Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern...
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    United States Postal Service postage stamp series. A school in Gert Town, New Orleans was named Mary Church Terrell Elementary School. It was severely...
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    Allen Toussaint (category Rhythm and blues musicians from New Orleans)
    three children, Toussaint was born in 1938 in New Orleans and grew up in a shotgun house in the Gert Town neighborhood, where his mother, Naomi Neville...
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  • John B.W. Cooper, formerly Calliope Projects Fairgrounds Gert Town Zion City, New Orleans Iberville Development (note: This area was built on the site...
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    Jefferson Parish. Gert Town (north) Central City (east) Milan (south) Freret (south) Marlyville/Fontainebleau (west) The New Orleans City Planning Commission...
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    0%) of which is water. Gert Town (north) Broadmoor (east) Audubon (south) East Carrollton (south) Leonidas (west) The New Orleans City Planning Commission...
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    When Hurricane Katrina struck the New Orleans area in August 2005, Xavier, located in the lower-lying Gert Town section and adjacent to the Washington-Palmetto...
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  • WVUE-DT (redirect from Fox 8 New Orleans)
    Francis Parkway in the city's Gert Town section, with a secondary studio within the Benson Tower in downtown New Orleans; its transmitter is located on...
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    Bayou St. John (north) Tulane/Gravier (east) Gert Town (south) Dixon (west) Lakewood (west) The New Orleans City Planning Commission defines the boundaries...
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    is water. Lakewood (north) Mid-City (northeast) Gert Town (south) Hollygrove (southwest) The New Orleans City Planning Commission defines the boundaries...
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    Hollygrove (north) Gert Town (north) Fontainebleau (east) East Carrollton (east) Mississippi River (west) Jefferson Parish (west) The New Orleans City Planning...
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  • in Hollywood; Allen Toussaint, musician and record producer, in Gert Town, New Orleans (d. 2015) Died: Jaakko Mäki, Finnish politician (b. 1878) The Supreme...
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  • Norman C. Francis Parkway (category Transportation in New Orleans)
    neighborhood to Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in the Gert Town neighborhood. Like most streets in New Orleans, the segment of the parkway to the north east of...
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    Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (21 September 1640 – 9 June 1701) was the younger son of King Louis XIII of France and Anne of Austria, and the younger...
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    Faubourg Lafayette (category New Orleans articles missing geocoordinate data)
    Lower Garden District (south) Central Business District, New Orleans (east) Gert Town, New Orleans (north) The neighborhood's first and only appearance as...
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    American Chicle Company Building (category National Register of Historic Places in New Orleans)
    Building, built in 1911, is located in the Gert Town neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. The New Orleans Chamber of Commerce started campaigning for...
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    Central City is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans. It is located in the 11th Ward of New Orleans in Uptown, just above the Garden District, on...
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  • Full Blooded (category Rappers from New Orleans)
    Full Blooded Origin Gert Town, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. Genres Hip hop gangsta rap Occupation Rapper Instrument Vocals Years active 1998–present Labels...
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    the "New Orleans Sniper" who killed a total of nine people, including five police officers, and wounded twelve others, in two separate attacks in New Orleans...
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    Xavier University Preparatory School (category Defunct middle schools in New Orleans)
    of Louisiana. The university would relocate to its current location in Gert Town while the high school remained uptown. The school was historically for...
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  • Mardi Gras Mambo (category Mardi Gras in New Orleans)
    mambo Mardi Gras mambo, mambo, mambo Mardi Gras mambo, ooh Down in New Orleans In Gert Town where the cats all meet It's a Mardi Gras mambo with a beat We...
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    Garrett Morris (category Male actors from New Orleans)
    Morris was born on February 1, 1937, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and grew up in the poverty-stricken Gert Town neighborhood. A church-choir singer from...
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