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WATERING PU AMUSEMENTS AT BAYOU ST. JOHN VIA HORSE POWER AND CIRCUS ACTIVITIES DOWNTOWN AT NEW ORLEANS CONGO SQUARE PROVIDED RELIEF FROM SUMMER HEAT 1816
"THE ENVIRONS OF NEW ORLEANS"
.... Though in the very middle and varmth of summer (1816) constant pleasure rcarties were going on from the midst of Orleans society to the rural establishments at the Bayou St. John, vhere particularly the public entertainments in the Lake Hotel, under the ownership of the late John Davis, were the most frequented.
Here the choice of Orleans bon vivants vould congregate and keep their splendid suppers and night carousals to the small hours of the morning; and on Sunday afternoons a continuous stream of public stages and coaches, as veil as throngs of horsemen of all descriptions, would enliven the whole precincts of the little village.
At evening, there were also, for the amusement of the more sedate and quiet citizen, the exhibition of Cayetano's horsemanship and pantomime at the circus then stationed upon the plains, now called the Congo Square, or Place d'A'rmes, behind Rampart Street, and In the vicinity of the present Parish prison. . . .
Source:	N.O.	Daily	Crescent	-	Thursday,	January	25,	1866	p	*+	c	2