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9.  The Rivergate site, center left.

First railroad track along the New Orleans riverfront built in the late 1860s; lines expanded considerably by the early 1880s. Wharves were initially wide, unprotected wooden platforms. Large covered wharves were not built until early twentieth-century.
Photo by Sam Sutton, 17 March 1962, Historic New Orleans Collection.

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