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    Lake Pontchartrain (/ˈpɒntʃətreɪn/ PON-chə-trayn; French: Lac Pontchartrain) is an estuary located in southeastern Louisiana in the United States. It...
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    The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (French: Chaussée du lac Pontchartrain), also known simply as The Causeway, is a fixed link composed of two parallel bridges...
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  • "The Lakes of Pontchartrain" (Roud 1836) is a folk ballad from the United States about a man who is given shelter by a Louisiana Creole woman. He falls...
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    Pontchartrain Beach was an amusement park located in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain. It was founded by Harry J. Batt...
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  • Lake Pontchartrain Bridge may refer to: Lake Pontchartrain Causeway Norfolk Southern Lake Pontchartrain Bridge Maestri Bridge on US 11 I-10 Twin Span...
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    which did not recover for decades after the peace. The opening of the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway and associated highways gradually brought Madisonville into...
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    The Battle of Lake Pontchartrain was a single-ship action on September 10, 1779, part of the Anglo-Spanish War. It was fought between the British sloop-of-war...
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    nearby Lake Pontchartrain, built upon fill to bring them above the average lake level. Navigable commercial waterways extended from the lake to downtown...
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    parish are bounded by St. Tammany Parish and Lake Pontchartrain to the north, St. Bernard Parish and Lake Borgne to the east, Plaquemines Parish to the...
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    New Orleans to provide navigation between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. The project was completed in 1923. In the 1930s, the federal Gulf...
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    a shipbuilding and sawmill town. The area south of Covington to Lake Pontchartrain's northern shore and extending eastwards to the Pearl River border...
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    shorter course through Lake Pontchartrain to the Gulf of Mexico. Diversion of the Mississippi's main channel through Lake Pontchartrain would have consequences...
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    halfway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, directly west of Lake Pontchartrain. Lake Maurepas was named for Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas...
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  • maintenance, construction, and enforcement of safety laws on the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway. It is headquartered in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans...
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    Southern Lake Pontchartrain Bridge is a rolling lift trunnion bridge that carries a single-track of Norfolk Southern rail line over Lake Pontchartrain between...
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    class vessels not to be built by Western Pipe & Steel. Named after Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, the ship was commissioned as a patrol gunboat with ID...
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    World War II.[citation needed] The land between Metairie Ridge and Lake Pontchartrain, which was cypress swamps and marshlands, was drained with the Wood...
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    a straight line north to Lake Pontchartrain; this line is the boundary between the Ninth and the city's Eighth Ward. The Lake forms the north and northeastern...
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    New Orleans Outfall Canals (category Tributaries of Lake Pontchartrain)
    Station 7 to Lake Pontchartrain. The London Avenue Canal extends 15,000 feet (4,600 m) north from Pump Station 3 to Lake Pontchartrain about halfway...
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    parallels the older US 190 corridor and traverses the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain in the southeastern portion of the state. The Interstate's length...
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    Commission are: Lake Pontchartrain to the north, Bayou St. John to the east, Allen Toussaint Boulevard to the south and Pontchartrain Boulevard and the...
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    carrying people and goods between the Mississippi River front and Lake Pontchartrain on 23 April 1831. It closed more than a hundred years later. The 6-mile...
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    large lakes (in reality estuaries) in the vicinity, Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas, commemorate respectively Louis Phelypeaux, Count Pontchartrain, minister...
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    Campanella, Catherine. "1937 - FDR in New Orleans". New Orleans History -- Lake Pontchartrain. Retrieved 13 June 2011. "Oysters Rockefeller". Epicurious. Condé...
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    is located on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain, south of Interstate 12. It is located directly across the lake from the city of New Orleans and its...
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  • unusual in that it is almost completely surrounded by water: Lake Pontchartrain to the north, Lake Borgne to the east, wetlands to the east and west, and the...
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    District, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Lake Pontchartrain to the north; the Industrial Canal to the east; Leon C. Simon Drive...
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    United States. UNO's 195-acre main campus is located on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain in Gentilly, New Orleans. The university's East Campus houses athletic...
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  • Tammany Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the northeast shore of Lake Pontchartrain. The population was 7,041 at the 2010 census, and 7,782 in 2020. It...
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  • comte de Pontchartrain, French statesman Fort Detroit (Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit), Detroit, Michigan Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Pontchartrain Park...
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