Editing Mandeville, Louisiana (section)

== History ==
[[File:Mandeville Rubys Front.JPG|left|thumb|Ruby's Roadhouse]]

The city of Mandeville was founded in 1834 by [[Bernard de Marigny|Bernard Xavier de Marigny de Mandeville]] (1785–1868).<ref>{{Cite web|title=City of Mandeville, Louisiana{{!}}History|url=https://www.cityofmandeville.com/history/|access-date=2022-02-17|website=City of Mandeville|language=en-US}}</ref> The Marigny family was a prominent family of Louisiana, owning nearly a third of the city of New Orleans. The area had long been agricultural land when the town of Mandeville was laid out in 1834 by developer Bernard de Marigny. In 1840, Mandeville was incorporated as a town. It became a popular summer destination for well-to-do New Orleanians wishing to escape the city's heat.

In the mid-19th century, regular daily [[steamboat]] traffic between New Orleans and Mandeville began, and by the end of the [[Victorian era]], it had become a popular weekend destination of the New Orleans [[middle class]], as well. Bands played music on the ships going across the lake and at [[pavilion]]s and [[dance hall]]s in Mandeville, and the town became one of the first places where the new "[[jazz]]" music was heard outside of New Orleans. [[Bunk Johnson]], [[Buddy Petit]], [[Papa Celestin]], [[George Lewis (clarinetist)|George Lewis]], [[Kid Ory]], [[Edmond Hall]], [[Chester Zardis]], and many other early jazz artists regularly played in Mandeville.

In the late 19th century, Mandeville was home of the [[Harvey School (Mandeville)]], a [[college preparatory]] institution.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lahistory.org/site34.php|title=Querbes, Andrew|publisher=[[Louisiana Historical Association]], A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography|access-date=February 2, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201235039/http://www.lahistory.org/site34.php|archive-date=2010-12-01|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Two buildings from early jazz history still stand in Mandeville. Ruby's Roadhouse has been in continuous operation since the 1920s (formerly Buck's Brown Derby and Ruby's Rendezvous) and is still a popular bar and live music venue today. The Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall, listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]], opened in January 1895. For years, the hall hosted some of the jazz greats and was reopened in 2000 as the Dew Drop Jazz and Social Hall, a live jazz venue. (This was one of the earliest "Dew Drop" dance halls; venues across the South were similarly named, including the club in New Orleans where [[Little Richard]] got his start.)

In 1956, the first span of the [[Lake Pontchartrain Causeway]] opened to automobile traffic. A second span was added in 1969. The new road spurred the growth of Mandeville and the surrounding area as a suburban commuter community for people working in New Orleans. This trend increased in the 1980s and 1990s, further integrating Mandeville into the greater New Orleans metropolitan area.

[[File:Hurricane Ike - Old Mandeville (3).jpg|right|thumb|Girod Street during the Hurricane Ike flood in 2008]]
Mandeville was affected by [[Hurricane Katrina]]'s storm surge on August 29, 2005, and received water and wind damage. Parts of the city also experienced less dramatic flooding when Lake Pontchartrain overflowed its banks due to [[Hurricane Ike]] in 2008. By 2009, most of the reconstruction from Katrina was completed. Many homes and businesses in areas that experienced flooding have been elevated.