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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KZD_site-of-first-u-s-district-court_New-Orleans-LA.html
In 1792 the Spanish Colonial Government built a boy's public school on this site. After the Louisiana Purchase it served as the first United States District Court of the Louisiana Territory.
Here in 1815, after the Battle of New Orleans General…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KXA_bellechasse-plantation_Belle-Chasse-LA.html
Site once part of Bellechasse plantation. Established by Col. Jean de Goutin Bellechasse, commander of colonial troops at the Louisiana transfer in 1803 and prominent early state official. Purchased in 1844 by Judah P. Benjamin, noted attorney and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K4U_garden-district_New-Orleans-LA.html
Famous for its nineteenth century homes and gardens. This area was originally part of Livaudais Plantation. Became part of City of Lafayette, 1833. Annexed by City of New Orleans, 1852. Designated a National Historic Landmark, 1974.
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JDM_leonidas-polk_Thibodaux-LA.html
Born April 10, 1806
in Raleigh
North Carolina
Died June 14, 1864
at Pine Mountain
Georgia
First Bishop of
Louisiana
1841——1864
Organized Saint
John's Church
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JDK_heros-tomb_Vacherie-LA.html
Veterans Memorial Monument
There have been only two persons
willing to die for you;
one died for your freedoms,
the other died for your soul
For those who fought for it,
freedom has a special taste,
the protected will never know
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JCX_gretna-city-hall_Gretna-LA.html
Built in 1907 as the sixth
Jefferson Parish Courthouse
Annex added 1929
Dedicated Gretna City Hall 1964
National Register of Historic Places 1983
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JCL_jazz_New-Orleans-LA.html
This site is in the area which has been called the birthplace of jazz. It was a center of social clubs, saloons, honky-tonks, bakeries, pawn shops, and barber shops where the musicians met during the early years of the twentieth-century. It was ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JCK_poblacion-de-barataria_Marrero-LA.html
To guard New Orleans, Spain in 1779 settled 56 families from the Canary Islands on lands starting at Crown Point. Flooding by the Mississippi River forced most of the settlers to relocate in 1782. Efforts to resettle failed and finally ceased in 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JCI_bourgeois-homeplace-site-familial-des-bourgeois_Paulina-LA.html
Side 1
Bourgeois Homeplace
Among the first Acadian exiles to Louisiana, eleven Bourgeois families settled this area in 1765. Site of lands granted 1803 to Widow Jean Bourgeois and sons. Bourgeois descendants still live on-site.
Side 2
Si…