Algiers is the part of the New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River. Officially it is the Fifth Municipal District and Fifteenth ward of the Orleans Parish. Algiers Point resides within Algiers, the only part of New Orleans located on the West Bank. According to the National Register Historic Places, Algiers Point is the second oldest neighborhood in New Orleans, the first being the French Quarter (Bronston 171). Algiers Point is boarder by the curve of the Mississippi River on the north and west, by Atlantic Avenue on the east, and by Newton Street on the south. Before Algiers was connected to the Fifth District in 1870, Algiers was a busy town with its own governance and industries (Bruno, 119). Algiers was initially founded
