Six houses were completely destroyed and five more substantially damaged. Eight people on the ground were killed, as were all 145 people aboard the aircraft. In 1982, Pan Am Flight 759 crashed in a residential area of Kenner when a microburst forced it down.

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. Kenner's growth began in the late 1950s when developers began subdividing, draining and filling the swampland in the northern half of the city. The line ran between the intersection of Rampart and Canal in New Orleans and the intersection of Williams Blvd and Jefferson Hwy in Kenner. 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.įrom 1915 to 1931, a New Orleans streetcar line operated between New Orleans and Kenner.

At the time, all land north of what is now Airline Highway was swampland. In 1855, Kenner was founded by Minor Kenner on land that consisted of three plantation properties that had been purchased by the Kenner family. The population was 66,448 at the 2020 census, making it the sixth-most populous city in Louisiana. It is the most populous city in Jefferson Parish, and is the largest incorporated suburban city of New Orleans. Kenner is a city in Louisiana, United States.

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