![For 15 Years, New Orleans Was Divided Into Three Separate Cities](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vWkyY2qbKq6cR39_vnnvERy2NQtLGvpHY_dxtRtHrm0-HpX1fFraXCtlKdBtuPJlOJo9tpl5S5jxaQjo3x0Fd5rMgTZCZPHYHVv72J-keVUGxXtu5z1Imp7BxJ5Jvagt4-ZydrfrmYbjLrGmGz4WTxCLkXB-6atb-1q4KMCecoVOyPgTkN8eEdE40z=s0-d)
In 1803, when the United States bought New Orleans, along with the rest of the land in the Louisiana Purchase, the city had only about 8,000 people living in it. Planned on a tight grid, the city stretched just eleven blocks along a curve of the Mississippi River and six blocks back from the levee, to Rampart Street.
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