George A. Hero

George A. Hero (28 July 1854 – 1932) was a New Orleans entrepreneur who organized the drainage of vast tracts of swampland on the West Bank of the Mississippi River at New Orleans. He was known locally as the "Drainage King".[1] and was founder of the Hero Land Company.[2] Later Hero was involved in a project to build a bridge from New Orleans to the West Bank, but this was never completed.

  1. ^ Sugar. R. Palmer. 1920. p. 195.
  2. ^ Donna McGee Onebane (17 July 2014). The House That Sugarcane Built: The Louisiana Burguières. Univ. Press of Mississippi. pp. 252–. ISBN 978-1-62674-174-4.