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Gretna is the second-largest city in, and parish seat of, Jefferson Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Gretna lies upon the west bank of the Mississippi River, just east and across the river from uptown New Orleans. It is allowance of the New Orleans–Metairie–Kenner metropolitan statistical area. The population was 17,814 at the 2020 U.S. census.

According to the records published by the city, Gretna’s chronicles can be traced to a plantation customary by Jean-Charles de Pradel by 1750 (when the plantation house, Monplaisir, was built). By 1813, the plantation had passed into the hands of one François Bernoudy. John McDonogh (also spelled John McDonough), then a resident of New Orleans, bought the establishment, moved into the house and founded a harmony in 1815, that would be named McDonoghville. He subdivided the land of the former plantation into regular city lots and 30-arpent gardening strips. McDonoghville therefore became the first subdivision in Jefferson Parish. McDonough either leased or sold these properties to white laborers or release people of color.

Gretna was fixed in 1836, originally as Mechanikham, growing subsequently a station on the Mississippi River for the Missouri Pacific Railroad, Texas and Pacific Railway, and Southern Pacific Railroad, with a ferry across the River to New Orleans. The famous food and spice company Zatarain’s, founded in 1889 in New Orleans, has been located in Gretna in the past 1963. Gretna was incorporated in 1913, absorbing the section of McDonogh within the Jefferson Parish boundaries. In the 1940 census, Gretna had a population of 10,879.