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NEW ORLEA' HAD SPECTACULAR GROWTH IN 1830s — EVEN DURING DEPRESSION OF I838 to 18^2 ITS EXPORT TRADE EXCEEDED NEW YORK'S — WAS FOURTH LARGEST CITY BY 18^0 BEHIND NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMORE --DROPPING TO FIFTH BEHIND BOSTON IN 1860
"Norman's Nev Orleans and Environs" ty Benjamin Moore Norman published 18^5 at New Orleans; republished LSU Pres 1976 quoting Introduction by Matthew J. Schott page xxiv -xxv
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"..... following the crash of 1827 . . . depressed times were
characterized by vigorous building and were marked by the only time in the city's history, between 1838 and l8l+2, when the, volume of its export trade exceeded New York's. (see Glaab "American City" p 68)
"The iS^Os had been years of spectacular growth, and in l8f+59 fully recovered from the depression, New Orleans looked forward again to what was to be more than a decade of economic boom extending to the Civil War. (John Smith Kendall, "History of New Orleans"3 vols: Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1922, I, 1^3? 160)
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^Between I83O and 18^0 its population had more than doubled to reach 10?.190. passing that of Boston and ranking it as the fourth largest city in the United States, behind New York. Philadelphia, and Baltimore.	“	~
"In 1850 and i860 the city's population stood at Il6|375‘?:and 168,675, respectiveTy, and though by the latter date it had again fallen behind Boston to fifth place, its total incrdase in the 1850s was exceeded only by that of New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.
"A dramatic reversal occurred in the 1860s, for not only did New Orleans drop to eight!? place in 1870“, surpassed by Chicago, Cincinnati, and St. Louis, but it ranked 20th in net increment among American cities. Growth was exceeded by Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jersey City, Louisville, Milwaukee,
New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Pittsbsrgh, St. Louis, San Francisco, Scranton, and Washington, D.C. (see population tables in McKelvey's "American Urbanization" p 37,73
'JThe prosperity of N.O. during the 3 decades^before^ the„.Civil War derived from the rapidly developing agriculture of "the Mississippi Valley and the newly dominant_steamboat transportation that turned increasing mounts of trade from overland to water routes. Port, cotton, financial center snd slave emporium brought capitalists of northern origin but
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of industrialization was unremarkable, even though large by rison with Southern standards."
(W. J/v^es ‘'tcv. ’■jt)