Old Hammond Highway

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Old Hammond Highway is the designation for what was the main traffic route between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Hammond, Louisiana, United States, in the early 20th century. It was largely replaced by US Highway 51.

This highway appears on the map of the 1921 Louisiana Highways Act as part of LA 33, but it apparently took several years to be completed. The 1929 Sanborn maps of the Bucktown and West End neighborhoods (on the Orleans-Jefferson Parish line) show it as not yet having been constructed in that area. That same section appears to be completed on the 1940 map and is still in existence today.

Parts of the roadway followed natural ridges in the land, other parts were built on pilings and fill through swamp.

Currently, the name "Old Hammond Highway" is used for discontinuous pieces of roadway in Greater New Orleans and Baton Rouge,