Basin Street takes its name from the turning basin of the Carondelet Canal, which connected the town’s then-outskirts to Bayou St. John, providing a waterway from the city to Lake Pontchartrain to its north. Built by Governor Carondelet in 1796, the canal was rebuilt and widened in 1805. The basin, later filled in, was located off Basin Street in the heart of Faubourg Treme, not far from St. Louis Cemetery Number One.
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