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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R35_tchoupitoulas-plantation_Harahan-LA.html
Site of plantation acquired in 1808 by Joseph Soniat du Fossat. Visited by Governor William C.C. Claiborne and, legend says, privateer Jean Lafitte. "Chapitoulas" Indians, whose name means "river people," lived in this area.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R0N_chartier-concession_New-Orleans-LA.html
Pierre Chartier de Baulne, French Louisiana attorney general in 1719, held the earliest land grant at the former village of the Colapissa on Chapitoulas (Metairie) Road. His family first colonists to live nearby.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QCD_camp-parapet_Jefferson-LA.html
In 1862 Confederate and Louisiana authorities laid out Camp Parapet as a part of the defense lines of New Orleans. The works were designed to protect the city against an attack from the north. After the Federals, coming up from the south, captured…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QCB_camp-parapet_Jefferson-LA.html
Part of Civil War fortification which extended from the river northward about 1-3/4 miles past Metairie Rd. Construction began in 1861 by the Confederates and continued after the fall of New Orleans by Union forces which occupied the area with man…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QCA_camp-parapet_Jefferson-LA.html
In 1862 Confederate and Louisiana authorities laid out Camp Parapet as a part of the defense lines of New Orleans. The works were designed to protect the city against an attack from the north. After the Federals, coming up from the south, captured…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MGR_magnolia-lane_Bridge-City-LA.html
Area known as Nine Mile Point; Site of Fortier Plantation and one of area's first schools, churches and later site of WW I commissary. Once the home of Francois Quinet, Sr., statesman & developer of early New Orleans; nearby was site of Fort Banks…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MA4_kenner-town-hall_Kenner-LA.html
The hub of Kenner city government was built in 1926 to house the Town Hall, jail, and courthouse. In 1956, City Hall moved. The jail and courthouse relocated in 1970. Today it houses the Kenner Office of Tourism.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M9W_la-salles-landing-1682_Kenner-LA.html
The French explorer
Robert Cavelier De La Salle
claimed the Louisiana Territory
for France
Louisiana Society
La Louisiane - Robert Ruffin Chapters
National Society
Colonial Dames XVII Century
2003
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1M4S_metairie-ridge-school_Metairie-LA.html
On this site in April 1909, the first public school in etairie opened and Metairie Ridge School. Land donated by Alfred E. Bonnabel who is often referred to as "The Father of Education" in Jefferson Parish.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JDO_saint-joseph-church_Gretna-LA.html
Father T. Anwander, C.SS.R., with a group of laymen, organized the mother church of West Jefferson in 1857. Previously Redemptorists crossing the Mississippi from the city of Lafayette had served the German, Irish, French and American-born Catho…