Fun Facts About New Orleans
New Orleans, the city where Crescent was founded back in 1983, is a city famous all around the world for its distinct and unique architecture, entertainment, and hospitality. New Orleans is the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana, as well as one of the United States' biggest ports. It boasts centuries of history and culture, and a few fun quirks.
Here's a few fun facts you may have not known about the city.
- Harrah’s casino is actually New Orleans's only land-based private casino with table games in the state, but the city is widely considered to be the birthplace of both poker and craps!
- Drinking alcohol on the street is allowed in plastic cups in New Orleans, so bars frequently provide patrons with plastic to-go cups.You can even get your drinks at drive-through daiquiri shops.
- New Orleans is also the birthplace of jazz music, along with two other music genres related to it, rock and roll and blues.
- The first opera in the United States of America was performed in the 1790s in New Orleans.
- New Orleans has no less than 20 historic districts, the highest number of historic districts according to the National Register.
- New Orleans is where voodoo was introduced into the US. One of the most prominent figures of New Orleans was Marie Laveau, an oracle who performed numerous exorcisms and voodoo rituals and who became widely known as the Voodoo Queen back in the 1800s.
- New Orleans is home to the longest continuous bridge in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records - Lake Pontchartrain Causeway.
- New Orleans is known as the most haunted city in America. It is often the preferred destination for paranormal investigators as well as tourists who are passionate about ghost haunting, and it is believed to be the place with the highest spiritual activity in the US, especially around the French Quarter where Marie Laveau used to live.
- In New Orleans, tombs are located above the ground in cemeteries, given the high water table in the area.
- New Orleans is the birthplace of famous singers like Louis Armstrong, writers like Truman Capote as well as TV personalities like Reese Whiterspoon and Ellen DeGeneres.