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In many ways the Algiers Point of today is little changed from the Algiers New Orleanians knew over a hundred years ago.  Consider a newspaper article written by Judge William H. Seymour.

"Few New Orleans People know anything more of Algiers than its name and the fact that it is a portion of the Crescent City, divided from it only geographically... Indeed, the history of the little town, while not as voluminous as that of New Orleans itself, is just as interesting and contains many events of importance in both State and National History...  It is a rapidly growing and busy place, and while scarcely larger than an ordinary town, it has many of the attributes of a city of twice its population, and while this is in part due to it's being a suburb of New Orleans, yet it may also be attributed to the fact that it has many inherent qualities to recommend it to the investor and prospective resident.  Algiers is not a boom town that has sprung full armed in the possession of jerry built houses and meaningless streets, but each piece of property, each street, has been a slow accretion, almost as slow as the building up the river bank by the silt of the Mississippi.  Each street has it's historical foundation and reaches back to the early part of the century, and nearly every house has it's traditions and stories"

From our perspective, the Judge's article seems a perfect description of today's Algiers Point, though the article appeared in the May 25, 1893 edition of the Times Democrat.  Historic Algiers Point is New Orleans' second oldest developed section, second only to the French Quarter.  It was developed early on because of its elevation, being one of only a few places in the New Orleans metropolitan area that is actually above sea level.  Algiers Point is High & Dry, which is an important feature in Post Katrina New Orleans.