Lakefront seawall Aerial view from the south showing City Park, Lake Vista, Orleans Avenue Canal, Spanish Fort, Bayou St. John and New Pontchartrain ... A 1732 map indicated as much, marking ...

Spanish Fort on Bayou St. John in New Orleans as seen in the 1930s. Today, some of the U-shaped fort’s brick ramparts, placed by masons before the signing of the Declaration of Independence ...