Hollygrove, New Orleans

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Hollygrove is a neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Hollygrove is located in the 17th Ward of New Orleans, uptown just down from the Jefferson Parish line, back (away from the Mississippi River) from the Carrollton neighborhood. Part of Claiborne Avenue is its primary thoroughfare.

Fixing up formerly flooded homes in Hollygrove after Katrina

[edit] History

This low flood prone area within the city limits was little developed until the 1920s with improved drainage (see Drainage in New Orleans), however problems with inadequate drainage remained despite additional improvement projects in the 1960s.

Hollygrove grew into a predominantly African-American neighborhood of single and double house homes (a slight majority owner occupied) and small neighborhood business.

Hollygrove, along with most of the city, flooded in the catastrophic failure of the Federal levee system during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

[edit] Notable people from Hollygrove

The Hollygrove neighborhood has produced many notable musical artists, including R&B singer Johnny Adams, Theryl DeClouet of Galactic, and rappers such as Lil Wayne (who often refers to Hollygrove in his lyrics), Mack Maine, Fiend, and Skip.^{[citation needed]} Others from Hollygrove include writer Scott Niedermyer^{[citation needed]}