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Crescent City

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Crescent City

Popular nickname for New Orleans, Louisiana, from the location of the Vieux Carré, its oldest section, on a sharp bend of the Mississippi River.

Crescent City

City in Putnam County, northeastern Florida, USA, on Crescent Lake, 45 km/28 mi northwest of Daytona Beach; population (1990) 1,900. It is a resort and citrus trade centre.

Crescent City is the birthplace (1889) of labour leader A Philip Randolph.
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Louis writes detailed descriptions of seedy clubs in Crescent City (New Orleans), of bootlegging, of levee construction, of Carville leper colony and the philosophy of Pliny the Elder.
The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish by Isaacs, Clark / Reviewer's Bookwatch
com Grace King's memoir of life in New Orleans from the Civil War to the Depression traces the crises and changes in Crescent City society, so it's more than just another autobiography by a Southern belle.
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It featured an amazing lineup of Crescent City music makers, chefs and food, and our beer.
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