Uptown/Carrollton
Historic streetcar suburb of shotgun houses on the site of a vanished nineteenth-century racetrack and pleasure resort.
This guide to Uptown/Carrollton in New Orleans uncovers the horse track that once packed these quiet blocks with tens of thousands of spectators, when Carrollton was still its own four-year-old village. It follows Virginia horseman Yelverton Oliver, who leased land here in 1837 to build the Eclipse Course, mixing sand and sawdust into the dirt for a track so fast that judges questioned it. A railroad carried gamblers and society families out from New Orleans to the track and to a pleasure ground called Carrollton Gardens at the end of the line. Look down at the street grid beneath your feet, surveyed back in 1833.
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