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Pearl Rivers was the summer home of George and Eliza Jane Poitevent Nicholson, locally known as "Fort" Nicholson. Better known as Pearl Rivers, Eliza Nicholson (1849-1896) was a poet, writer, and publisher of the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Innovative and fiscally savvy, she was one of the first female publishers in the U.S.
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