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ANTEBELLUM PERIOD
him; Bayard, Peici, Dumont, Fayard, Boulanger, Lanata, Judge Monette, Dimitry Canna, Arnoitte, Carriere, Rosaville Saucier, Jean Baptiste Favre, George Johnson, another Battle of New Orleans Veteran, Bienville, Tilden, Guardia, Labatte, and Cowan. The Cowan place was the last and was called Cedar Point, beyond which was almost a forest of cedar trees. The Cowan place was of brick and with its very stately appearance was considered the show place of the town.
"Coming back to Main Street, beginning at the north side was the home of Evariste Saucier and the Masonic Lodge, known as lodge 141, and among whose members were Judge Monette, John B. and his son John V. Toulme, Raymond Cuevas, Leo Carver, and William Johnston. After the Masonic Hall were the home of Vonav and a blacksmith shop, Titot and his bakery and Dave Bontemps.
"Across the street were Guarino, Albert Fayard, Jules Fayard, the schoolhouse, the Jail, Sadler, the Pieri Bakery Shop, and Dr. Dupre's office.
"On what is now known as Washington Street there was but one house, that of Caspar Garco."
The barroom and the Carr's hotel referred to by Cuevas was probably the same inn that was kept a few years earlier by a man named Cantoni and his wife. It was located about where the Hotel Reed (now a nursing home) was located a century later. Cantoni's
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