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We would like to provide the residents of  Kenner  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Kenner Home page. The Kenner Home page provides as much information as possible on Kenner. Knowing Kenner’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Kenner’s Home page, you will also find Kenner’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Kenner has a population of 66759. 48% of Kenner’s inhabitants are Male, and 52 are female. 44.5% of Kenner is married and 58.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $190,896, and the average rent is $987. Household median income in Kenner is $54,493, and the individual median income is $29,634. Kenner’s Ethnic is the following: White(60.4%), Hispanic(25.3%), Black(23.5%), Other(6.9%), Multiple(5%), Asian(3.6%), Native(0.6%).


Originally inhabited by the Tchoupitoulas Indians, the area along the Mississippi River was the first land in the New Orleans metropolitan area on which Europeans set foot. René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle landed there in 1682. In 1855, Kenner was founded by Minor Kenner on land that consisted of three plantation properties that had been purchased by the Kenner family.


At the time, all land north of what is now Airline Highway was swampland. In Kenner on May 10, 1870, "Gypsy" Jem Mace defeated Tom Allen for the heavyweight championship of the bare-knuckle boxing era; a monument marks the spot near the river end of Williams Boulevard. From 1915 to 1931, a New Orleans streetcar line operated between New Orleans and Kenner.


The line ran between the intersection of Rampart and Canal in New Orleans and the intersection of Williams Blvd and Jefferson Hwy in Kenner. Kenner's growth began in the late 1950s when developers began subdividing, draining and filling the swampland in the northern half of the city. During the 1960s, the construction of Interstate 10 and improvements to Veterans Memorial Highway aided the rapid development of Kenner as a suburb of New Orleans. In 1982, Pan Am Flight 759 crashed in a residential area of Kenner when a microburst forced it down.


Eight people on the ground were killed, as were all 145 people aboard the aircraft. Six houses were completely destroyed and five more substantially damaged.


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