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GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES SETH EASTMAN:
New Orleans From the Barracks -
Looking West Seth Eastman recorded this scene of New Orleans, on the west bank of the Mississippi River, in October 1848. Two and a half years later, in March 1851, when Sarah Rebecca MCCLELLAN (née LUCAS) journeyed on the Mississippi past this locale, the scene would have been somewhat changed. In this image, right of center, the domed structure topped by a cupola, is the St. Charles Hotel (also known as the Exchange Hotel) which was designed by James Harrison Dakin (1806 - 1852) and James Gallier (1798 - 1866) and which was constructed in 1836. The building was 235 feet long and 203 feet deep; and its dome rose to height of 185 feet. Granite for the building was imported from Quincy, Massachusetts. About Sarah Rebecca LUCAS, see G0493A: George Augustine LUCAS, Lieutenant, Child 2: Sarah Rebecca LUCAS, in Descendants of Peter Lucas (ABT 1729 - 16 November 1781). About her journey, see From Tennessee to Texas: The Diary of Sarah Rebecca Lucas McClellan and the Letter of William Wilson Sloan: Texts. About the illustrations of Seth Eastman, see From Tennessee to Texas: The Diary of Sarah Rebecca Lucas McClellan and the Letter of William Wilson Sloan: Illustrations by Seth Eastman.
Thomas M. Easterly (1809 -
1882): Daguerrotype of the Saint Charles Exchange Hotel,
New Orleans (1844) On 16 January 1851, two months before Sarah Rebecca MCCLELLAN (née LUCAS) revisited New Orleans, the Daily Picayune reported the destruction of the St. Charles Exchange Hotel by a fire which originated in the kitchen and which raged for three hours:
St. Charles Hotel in Flames by J. R. P. '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' RETURN: Descendants of Robert Allen (ABT 1674 - ABT 1775) RETURN: Descendants of Archibald Sloan (BEF 1697 - BEF March 1764) RETURN: Antecedents and Descendants of Robert Kelton, Sr. (ABT 1724 - AFT 1791) RETURN: Descendants of Peter Lucas (ABT 1729 - 16 November 1781) RETURN: Firemen's Cemetery (Cypress Grove), Metairie, Louisiana GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES: TABLE OF CONTENTS GENEALOGICAL NOTES AND ANECDOTES: HOME This web site is always under construction. For entries preceded by an asterisk (*), further information is forthcoming. Persons wishing to contribute information to this web site, or who wish to make inquiries, may do so by addressing their email to:
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