Tchoupitoulas Street
{{Short description|Thoroughfare near the Mississippi River, New Orleans}}
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Image:Tipitinas Apr23 2004 1.jpg at the corner of Tchoupitoulas and Napoleon]]
Tchoupitoulas Street ({{IPAc-en|audio=Tchoupitoulas.ogg|ˌ|tʃ|ɒ|p|ɪ|ˈ|t|uː|l|ə|s}} {{respell|CHOP|ih|TOO|ləss}}) is a street in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Running through uptown, it is the through street closest to the Mississippi River. Formerly, the street was heavily devoted to river shipping commerce, but as shipping concerns gravitated to other locations in the latter part of the 20th century, more of the street has been utilized for residential and other business purposes.
Etymology
File:Celebrate Taking Them Down (34400658742).jpg of the Robert E. Lee Monument. Their inability to pronounce "Tchoupitoulas Street" according to the local fashion would be a shibboleth marking them as outsiders.]]
The name of the street comes from the name of a Native American tribe{{cite web |title=Native American Names In Louisiana |url=http://www.eatel.net/~wahya/lanames.html |publisher=eatel.net |accessdate=November 30, 2010}}{{cite book|last=Wymond|first=John|title=The Louisiana Historical Quarterly |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=McsBAAAAMAAJ |year=1925|publisher=Louisiana Historical Society |page=309|quote=a road called Tchoupitoulas, following the course of the River and no doubt leading to the village of the Tchoupitoulas Native Tribe}} that perhaps means "those who live at the river" in Choctaw ({{lang|cho|hạcha-pit-itula}}).
The tribal village – called the {{lang|fr|côte}} (or {{lang|fr|quartier}}) {{lang|fr|des Chapitoulas}} in the 18th and early 19th centuries – was the headwaters of a bayou also named after the Chapitoulas.{{cite book|last=Read|first=William A.|title=Louisiana Place Names of Native American Origin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MSbUOTHeSWoC&pg=PA63|date=2008|publisher=University of Alabama Press|isbn=978-0-8173-5505-0|pages=62–4}}
Location
The street starts at the upriver side of Canal Street (the opposite side from the French Quarter) and goes through New Orleans Central Business District (CBD) and uptown, following the curve of the river's crescent bend before coming to its terminus, hitting East Road at Audubon Park.
The equivalent street on the French Quarter side of Canal Street is {{abbr|N.|North}} Peters Street, which splits into two streets on the uptown side: one continuing as {{abbr|S.|South}} Peters, and the other as Tchoupitoulas.
See also
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- List of streets of New Orleans
- The Wild Tchoupitoulas, which also take their name from the Native American tribe