Docks From the 1920s
This file appears in: Site 7: First to Third Streets — The 1894 Waterfront Riot: Murder Comes to the Levee
These docks, which sustained hurricane damage, were built in the early 1920s. They are located at the Harbor Police Department between First and Third Streets, where White screwmen attacked their Black counterparts on the Lord Erne, the Imperial, and the Delano.
This file appears in: Site 7: First to Third Streets — The 1894 Waterfront Riot: Murder Comes to the Levee
Site 7: First to Third Streets — The 1894 Waterfront Riot: Murder Comes to the Levee
Gun smoke mingled with steam rising from smokestacks of British ships docked along the levee. Rifle shots replaced the usual sounds of the port. The rattling of carts and longshoremen singing shanteys…