St. Tammany In The Early 1900's

Big changes were on the way for St. Tammany Parish in the first half of the 1900's. A snapshot of life at that time was provided by newspaper feature writer Polly Morris in a 1976 article she based on information from a 1954 booklet. It contained statistics from previous years and presented, as she termed it, a clear picture of the "invisible line" that separated the City of New Orleans from the rural landscape of St. Tammany. The changes in St. Tammany from 1900 to 1954 she discussed 41 years ago are even more interesting looking back now from 2017.

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