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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.
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 1920sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 Events and trends Technology John Logie Baird invents the first working t; this area is now known as "Old Metairie".
Most of the rest of Metairie was not developed until after World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough.
The wide straight avenue "Veterans Boulevard" was laid out along side a drainage canalCanal du Midi in Toulouse, France Canals are man-made waterways, usually connecting existing lakes, rivers, or oceans. They are used for transportation, often by barges or narrowboats on smaller canals, and by ships on ship canals that connect to the ocea, and became a commercial center of the region. Some of the Greater New Orleans area's leading shopping mallFor the traditional meaning of the word mall see mall. A shopping mall is a building or set of buildings that contain stores/shops and have interconnecting walkways that make it easy for people to walk from store to store. The walkways may or may not be es are located in Metairie.
In the 1970sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 Events and trends and early 1980sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Events and trends an area of barsA bar is an establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold to be drunk on premises. It can be either an independent business or a section of a restaurant or hotel. Alternatively, "bar" can refer to the specialized counter on which the drinks are served, and nightclubA nightclub (often dance club or club particularly in the UK) is an entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark. Nightclubs are always associated with music and have a dance floor, however small: a drinking establishment without music is opened in a section of Metairie that for a time was popular and known as "Fat City".
Metairie is located at 29°59'52" North, 90°10'39" West (29.997797, -90.177473) 1.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 60.2 km˛ (23.3 mi˛). 60.1 km˛ (23.2 mi˛) of it is land and 0.1 km˛ (0.1 mi˛) of it is water. The total area is 0.22% water.
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