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The location on the Mississippi River where land is at the highest elevation and at the lowest point (about 90 miles from the mouth) on the river was chosen as a possible location in 1699 by Pierre LeMoyne, Sieur d'Iberville and his brother Jean Baptiste LeMoyne, Sieur de Bienville. It took nineteen years for the first actual settlement to rise out of the swamp. By this time d'Iberville had died allowing for his brother Bienville to formally establish a city in honor of the reagent of France, duke Phillipe de Orleans in march of 1718 and called it New Orleans.

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