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New Orleans Fetes Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial
A large New Orleans celebration marked the Louisiana Purchase bicentennial with a re enactment at the Cabildo and a historical ball hosted by the Louisiana Historical Society. Notables included Gale Norton Jean-David Levitte Mary Landrieu Mike Foster Kathleen Blanco and Ray Nagin. The event reviewed Jefferson and Napoleon era figures and the vast 828 000 square mile tract sold for 15 million dollars at roughly four cents per acre.
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New Orleans
Crescent City
America
Interior
Gale Norton
United States
Jean-David Levitte
U.S
Mary Landrieu
Louisiana
Mike Foster
Kathleen Blanco
Ray Nagin
Louisiana State Museum Cabildo
Jackson Square
Louisiana Territory
Thomas Jefferson
George Bush
Sage
Norton
Cabildo
Louisiana Historical Society
Deacon John
Napoleon
Mississippi River
Gulf of Mexico
Great Lakes
France
Louis XIV
la Salle
Europe
North America
Pacific Ocean
Arkansas
Colorado
Iowa
Kansas
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Mexico
North Dakota
South Dakota
Oklahoma
Wyoming
Texas
Panhandle
Louisiana Purchase
Horatio Gates
Jefferson
Washington