Wedge City #6: Toledano def. Pleasant Traditional Cache
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Wedge City #6: Toledano def. Pleasant
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Cache is PVC. Terrain at 2 beacause of dog poop. Small trade items and trackables should fit inside. Pen is provided with logbook.
Confounding to visitors to the Crescent City, the grid system of streets looks more like a bicycle wheel than the traditional and predictable grids of cities like Chicago. The river rules our geography and ultimately the layout of our streets. Streets that begin at the river often fade out as the ‘spokes’ constrict to the center. The result occasionally produces small pieces of land that become mini urban greenways. This series takes advantage of those places and throws in a few that resulted from how the neighborhood was originally laid out. I hope you enjoy and happy caching.
The Toledano/Pleasant St. neutral ground runs all the way from Prytania to Dryads, where Pleasant St. loses the wedge battle. This part, north of St. Charles, was designated Zacharie Park in 1903 and streets like Baronne and Carondelet were forced to detour around the park. In 1916 the name was changed to Zacharie Place because it was decided that for traffic flow, the streets should pass through, resulting in the fracturing of the greenway.
The sundial at St. Charles was dedicated to the memory of James S. Zacharie who was a member of the city council when he passed away in 1906. Zacharie was an advocate for the development of parks and parkways, so it is a bit ironic that the park established in his name was cut up by through streets, thus minimizing the usefulness of the space. My experience here is that this space is used mainly by dog walking muggles who do not bother to clean up after their pets, so watch out.
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