Church Services have resumed in-person worship with proper social distancing. Sunday School is also in-person, but the call-in alternative remains an option.
For more information about schedules and events,. To download a copy of the Sunday School Workbook click here. We, at Metairie Ridge Presbyterian Church, are a community of believers seeking to share God's love with our neighbors around us and in the larger world. Wherever you are in your faith journey, even if you hadn't realized you were on a journey, we invite you to join us as we explore what it means to follow Jesus Christ and trust him with our lives.
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Bringing Change. Loving our Neighbors as Ourselves. Gathered as a Community of Faith. The Church is not just for worship. Sharing in fellowship is an essential part of God's Church. Metairie Ridge values our. Office Thanks for submitting! Hurricane Katrina caused a new migration from Orleans Parish. This migration resulted from the need of housing. It has been a racially neutral migration, with equal numbers of black and white residents moving to Jefferson Parish. Metairie, LA Directions.
Sponsored Topics. The wending corridor also became popular for auto-touring. Bayou Metairie creeps along in perfect outline, between fringes of cedars, water oaks and cane.
Automobiles would soon clog Metairie Road, making the rural enclave more like a modern suburb. Cabarets and gambling clubs opened for the same remote-yet-accessible reasons that had attracted prior sub rosa activities. Intent on expelling the gambling halls, residents convinced the state in to incorporate the community as a village and later a city, named Metairie Ridge.
But the move was legally tenuous, and in , the Louisiana Supreme Court withdrew municipal status. Metairie has been unincorporated ever since. Traffic and drainage needs increasingly squeezed out Bayou Metairie. Reports from Jefferson Parish in the s to the s make it clear the once-scenic waterway had become a nuisance and an obstacle, and its channel would be incrementally filled.
Some remaining ditches or indentations may be seen today near Airline Drive around Garden of Memories Cemetery, and on certain streets intersecting Metairie Road, such as Wood Avenue, where pairs of telltale storm drains mark slight indentations in the street grade. The only sections of Bayou Metairie not considered a nuisance were those that been landscaped, and both were located within Orleans Parish. One, known as Horseshoe Lake, paralleled Metairie Cemetery and featured weeping willows, ornamental bridges and islands.
Pretty as it was, Horseshoe Lake also formed a traffic bottleneck, as narrow Metairie Road was among the few arteries connecting the two growing parishes. As part of Mayor deLesseps "Chep" Morrison's street improvement program, Metairie Road was widened in from two to four lanes at the expense of the ancient waterway. Bayou Metairie was, quite literally, buried at Metairie Cemetery. That left only one other remaining major section of Bayou Metairie, and happily, it is the most beautiful: the lagoons of lower City Park.
Despite many alterations, they provide an idea of what the abandoned distributary looked like centuries ago. Reached him through richcampanella. Edit Close.
Toggle navigation. Close 1 of 6. Campanella, Richard. Photo from the Library of Congre. A view of some of the extensive nurseries along Metairie Road.
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