Gretna, Louisiana Gretna, Louisiana Gretna City Hall Gretna, Louisiana is positioned in Louisiana Gretna, Louisiana Location of Gretna in Louisiana Gretna is the second-largest town/city and church seat of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States.
Gretna is on the west bank of the Mississippi River, just east and athwart the river from uptown New Orleans.
Gretna, Louisiana is positioned in 100x100 Gretna - Gretna French Quarter - French Quarter Location of Gretna, athwart the Mississippi River from uptown New Orleans, south of the French Quarter Gretna is positioned at 29 54 59 N 90 3 15 W (29.916459, -90.054260) and has an altitude of 0 feet (0 m) behind the levee along the Mississippi River.
Gretna was settled in 1836, originally as Mechanicsham, burgeoning with a station on the Mississippi River for the Missouri Pacific Railroad, Texas and Pacific Railway, and Southern Pacific Railroad, with a ferry athwart the River to New Orleans.
Gretna was incorporated in 1913, absorbing the section of Mc - Donogh inside the Jefferson Parish boundaries.
In the 1940 census, Gretna had a populace of 10,879.
The town/city and its police received considerable press coverage when, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (late August 2005), citizens who attempted to escape from New Orleans by walking over the Crescent City Connection bridge over the Mississippi River were turned back at gunpoint by City of Gretna Police, along with Crescent City Connection Police and Jefferson Parish Sheriff's deputies, who set up a roadblock on the bridge in the days following the hurricane.
According to eyewitnesses, some officers threatened to shoot those coming from New Orleans as they attempted to cross into Gretna on foot, and shots were fired overhead. The United States Postal Service operates the Gretna Post Office. Gretna's enhance schools are directed by the Jefferson Parish Public Schools system.
Schools serving portions of the town/city limits are in the City of Gretna unless otherwise noted. Zoned elementary schools serving sections of Gretna include Shirley T.
Johnson Gretna Park Elementary School, William Hart Elementary School, and Mc - Donogh #26 Elementary School.
George Cox Elementary School, which also serves a portion of Gretna, is in Timberlane, an unincorporated area. Most inhabitants are zoned to Gretna Middle School, while some are zoned to Livaudais Middle School in Terrytown. Most inhabitants are zoned to West Jefferson High School in Harvey, an unincorporated region of Jefferson Parish, while some are zoned to Helen Cox High School, also positioned in Harvey. In regards to advanced studies academies, inhabitants are zoned to the Gretna Academy. Gretna #2 Academy for Advanced Studies a Pre-5 magnet school and L.
Ruppel Academy, a 6-8 magnet school, are in Gretna. Thomas Jefferson High School is another magnet school in Gretna.
Milestone Sabis Academy, a K-8 charter school, is in Gretna.
Jefferson Parish Library operates the Gretna Public Library in Gretna.
(born 1946), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for District 97 in Orleans Parish since 2014; former resident of Gretna Olaf Fink (1914-1973), educator and state senator for Orleans Parish from 1956 to 1972, is interred at Westlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Gretna.
Girod Jackson, III, former state representative for Jefferson Parish and former Gretna resident Raymond, businessman and former state representative in Orleans Parish; former resident of Gretna a b c "Gretna, Louisiana".
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