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The Fountain
District
The Fountain District is where many
of New London's more fortunate residents go home
at night. With its tree-lined streets and immaculately
turned out houses, it's hard to see why anyone wouldn't
want to live here.
The district is crossed
northwest to southeast by Fountaine Street, which
leads out into the marshland of the Fountain Estate,
Havre Street, and the River Road which clings to the
banks of the Mississippi with a slow stream of traffic
pouring northwest towards Baton Rouge, or southeast
towards New Orleans, and northeast to southwest by
Church Street, which is home to the City Hall and
St Dysmus Hospital, and Encre Street, which runs into
the Claireau Quarter and is home to New London's public
library, and St Agnes's School.
While many of the
houses closest to the Claireau Quarter around Havre
and Encre Street are reserved only for those who can
afford it, many of the homes around the Church Street
and Fleuvre Street, which comes off the River Road
and runs right along the Mississippi banks, are much
more affordable, and it is here that many of New London's
citizens find themselves living.
Coming off Fleuvre
Street, the Hollowmarsh Bridge crosses the Mississippi,
giving New London residents access to the eerie beauty
of the Hollowmarsh Nature Reserve where a mixture
of rich, marshland wildlife and ancient Indian legends
prove quite an attraction on the weekends.
To the far north of
New London is the architectural gem of Our Lady and
St Vincent Catholic Church, and just a stone's throw
away, the sprawling, ancient Bon Espoir cemetery with
its crumbling marble, and vaults dating back to the
mid 1700's. |
