Gretna-Jackson Ferry

The Jackson Avenue–Gretna ferry carried U.S. Highway 90 across the Mississippi during 1926–1928 and 1930–1937, until the Huey P. Long Bridge and subsequent improvements to Jefferson Highway were completed. After that, it kept running as a local crossing — automobiles for a dollar, bicycles and pedestrians free — operated by the Crescent City Connection Division of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development on weekdays from six in the morning to quarter to nine at night. The historic ferry route ended on September 28, 2009, replaced by the Gretna–Canal Street route carrying only pedestrians and bicycles. That service was soon terminated. As of 2017, the Gretna ferry terminal was being converted into a river cruise ship terminal, intended as the home port for the French America Line's MV Louisiane — a paddle-wheel steamboat built in 2000 by Vigor Works of Portland, Oregon as the MV Columbia Queen, purchased from the U.S. Maritime Administration in 2016 for a complete refit in drydock and renaming, inaugurated that August with plans to cruise the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.