McDonoghville

McDonogh, is a community of Greater New Orleans, Louisiana. McDonogh was previously known as McDonoghville. It was established in 1815, and named for major land owner John McDonogh. McDonoghville stradled what is now the West Bank boundary between Jefferson Parish and Orleans Parish. The portion on the Orleans side was absorbed into Algiers and thence into New Orleans, while the portion on the Jefferson side was absorbed into Gretna in 1913. Irish, Italian and German immigrants were the first New Orleanians to populate McDonogh in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The city's robust economic growth from trade increased population and immigrants fled to the West bank to relieve the increasingly crowded East bank. Excellent ferry...