The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 39, September 11, 2005, Article 4

FATE OF NEW ORLEANS RECORDS UNKNOWN

"For those of you interested in the historic records in New
Orleans, there was an article from the Associated Press on
NOLA.com that explained how the efforts to save city
documents were stymied. Specialists working for the New
Orleans Notorial Archives were trying to get downtown to
rescue some of the most historic documents in the city's
history, from original land grants to slave sale records and
title records. Federal troops have refused to let them through
the checkpoints set up in the city.

The Notorial Archives hired Munters Corporation, a Swedish
document salvage firm, to rescue the documents, but their
refrigerated trucks were not allowed in. These trucks were
headed to the Civil District Courthouse on Poydras Street,
where many of the city's real estate documents are housed,
and to the former Amoco building, which houses such historical
documents as a letter from Jean Lafitte to Washington demanding
payment for his expenditures during the Battle of New Orleans."

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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