Lincoln Beach amusement park

The park was for the area's black population during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation.

The land where Lincoln Beach was located was deeded to the city by Sam Zemurray in 1938 and purchased within a year by the Orleans Levee Board.

In the last decade, Fats Domino, Nat King Cole, The Neville Brothers, and more performed there.

Although there have been various proposals to redevelop the Lincoln Beach site, the decaying ruins of the park have remained vacant for decades.

[5] Kahrl, Andrew W, The Land Was Ours: African American Beaches from Jim Crow to the Sunbelt South (Harvard University Press, 2012)