In 2010 Rusty Burns put together an extensive collection of old photographs depicting the Madisonville area, all to be scanned and placed in production of a video to be shown at the 2011 Madisonville Town Bicentennial Celebration.
The video contained dozens of old photographs of the shipyards, the buildings and the people of Madisonville over the past 100 years. The Tammany Family blog is presenting those photographs in a three-part blog series. Here is part one. Click on the images to make them larger.
The Madisonville steamer ran between Madisonville and New Orleans across Lake Pontchartrain for several years, then was used in military service in 1943, and later as a tourist boat in New York harbor taking people to the Statue of Liberty.
The New Camelia docked at Madisonville and went all the way up to Old Landing near Covington. It was one of the more popular lake excursion vessels.
St. Catherine's Catholic Church
To view the complete video that Rusty Burns prepared, it may still be available for viewing at the following link:
Tomorrow we will look at more photographs from the Burns video, these pictures to deal with the Tchefuncte River lighthouse and the Jahncke shipyards.
See also:
Madisonville Video Photos - Part Two
Madisonvile Video Photos - Part Three
Tugboats Clog The Tchefuncte River
Building the Madisonville Bridge in 1935
