The Creole Gardens | The Best New Orleans Bed and Breakfast

Wow, what a roster of great musical acts for Jazz Fest 2009! With a great mix of local legends and world-famous stars, there really is something everyone can groove to.
It’s exciting to see show-stoppers like Kings of Leon, Common and Erykah Badu return to New Orleans after amazing performances at Voodoo Music Experience.
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Our guests woke this morning to a pleasant surprise. Snow was steady falling in New Orleans this morning for the first time since 2004. We had over an inch covering the ground in our courtyard by the time the fluffy flakes stopped falling and the really cold rain starting falling once again.

We were, understandably, very excited […]

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its not too late to get into your car and come to new orleans for Dirty Linen Night!
All the great Royal Street galleries in the French Quarter will be open tonight between 6-9pm.   They close the street and there is live music, performance, food and drinks, etc.

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The word Dixie originated in new Orleans before the civil war. This was a terms “coined” (no pun intended) because the money here at teh time was printed on one side in French. The number 10 in French is pronounced dix (said: dees). At that time there were so many of these double printed tens […]

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The very first statue erected in the United States is located only a stones throw from the Creole Gardens Bed and Breakfast? Thats right, on the corner of Camp St. and Prytania the statue of Irish immigrant Margaret Haughery who devoted her life and money to the orphans of New Orleans still stand as proud […]

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During the 18th century, French colonists in Acadia, Nova Scotia, who were displaced by the British, moved to the new French territory of Louisiana and formed an outpost in the countryside some 100 miles west of New Orleans.
Over 200 years later, and a little West of New Orleans, you’ll find the descendants of these Acadians, […]

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