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about Metairie

Metairie is a town located in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 146,136. Metairie is the largest suburb of the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan area.

The name comes from a French language term for a tenant farm which paid the landlord with a share of the produce (sharecropping), as this was the main activity of the area in the early 19th century. The name is prononced locally "MET-uh-ree" or "Met'ree".

It should be noted that Metairie Cemetery is not located in the town of Metairie, but rather within the city of New Orleans on Metairie Road.

Metairie geography

Metairie is located at 29°59'52" North, 90°10'39" West (29.997797, -90.177473).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 60.2 km² (23.3 mi²). 60.1 km² (23.2 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.1 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.22% water.

Metairie history

The first development of the area was along Metairie Ridge, a winding bit of naturally higher land formed by an old bayou levee. This became "Metairie Road". An electric streetcar was installed running along Metairie Road in the late 1910s, opening the area to greater development. Upscale suburban housing tracts were constructed off the Road in the 1920s; this area is now known as "Old Metairie".

Most of the rest of Metairie was not developed until after World War II.

The wide straight avenue "Veterans Boulevard" was laid out along side a drainage canal, and became a commercial center of the region. Some of the Greater New Orleans area's leading shopping malls are located in Metairie.

In the 1970s and early 1980s an area of bars and nightclubs opened in a section of Metairie that for a time was popular and known as "Fat City".

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