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Leonidas (also known as West Carrollton) is a neighborhood designation in the city of New Orleans. A subdistrict of the Uptown/Carrollton Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: South Claiborne Avenue, Leonidas and Fig Streets to the north, South Carrollton Avenue to the east, the Mississippi River and Jefferson Parish to the west. Although an official city planning district name, the name "Leonidas" is not widely used nor has it any historical usage and the area is usually referred to simply as "Carrollton". The designated neighborhood incorporates the upper-river half of what had been the town of Carrollton, Louisiana, in the 19th century. It is commonly known to locals simply as "Carrollton, or to distinguish this section, "Upper Carrollton" or "West Carrollton". The portion closer to the river is often called the "Riverbend" or "Carrollton Riverbend." The section closer to the Jefferson Parish line is sometimes known as "Pigeon Town / Pension Town". Leonidas is a neighborhood in the city of New Orleans more commonly known to the locals as Pigeon Town / Pension Town. Today the area thrives on its commercial businesses but it also includes a large residential community. The formal name for the neighborhood, Leonidas, came from the famous Spartan King of 490 B.C. The name also is connected with the street that intersects through the neighborhood, Leonidas Street. The informal name, Pigeon Town, has been passed down for generations. The name has its roots in the word, pidgin.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=History of the Pigeon Town in New Orleans )〕 It is defined as a ''simplified speech used for communication between people with different languages''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pidgin )〕 Landmarks in the neighborhood include the Camellia Grill, Carrollton Streetcar Barn, Palmer Park, the Water Works, and the Oak Street commercial district including the well known Maple Leaf Bar.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leonidas Neighborhood )〕 == History == The Leonidas neighborhood area has history dating all the way back to the 1700s. ''Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville'', a French colonizer and the founder of the city of New Orleans, began a plantation in the area circa 1719.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leonidas Neighborhood Snapshot )〕 The land went on to remain a plantation for different types of agriculture well into the 1800s. The area was then bought by the New Orleans Canal and Banking Company and was divided into sections. In 1835, the first house was built and soon emerged a new neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leonidas Neighborhood Snapshot )〕 The Leonidas neighborhood is a part of a bigger whole called the town of Carrollton. In the 1850s, Dublin was the main street of the town of Carrollton. Fast forward almost a century and a half later in 1980, the town of Carrollton along with the Leonidas neighborhood was purchased and divided the city into 13 districts and 72 neighborhoods by the New Orleans City Planning Commission. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leonidas, New Orleans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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