Golf in Harahan

Jefferson Parish's inner west bank communities developed in the early twentieth century as streetcar and ferry connections made the area accessible to New Orleans workers seeking more space. Harahan is a quiet residential municipality embedded in this older suburban fabric, its identity distinct from the high-rise Jefferson Parish of Veterans Boulevard and the airport corridor. Colonial Golf Course serves this community — a modest facility whose name echoes the colonial history of the river parishes — in a densely built neighborhood where open land is scarce and a golf course represents a significant land commitment. The Mississippi levee is nearby, and the relationship between the west bank communities and the river has defined land-use patterns here for over a century.