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2 unusual facts about Pontchartrain Beach


Pontchartrain Beach

In the early 1930s, subsequent to the construction of a seawall extending from West End to the Industrial Canal that created a new shoreline for Lake Pontchartrain, Pontchartrain Beach was moved to a new location at the lake end of Elysian Fields Avenue, a location formerly offshore of Milneburg.

The park was originally racially segregated and earmarked for "Whites Only"; another lakefront resort was reserved for "Coloreds", Lincoln Beach.



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