Courts met under "Jury Oak" early 1800s.Judge presided while sitting on tree limb.Public executions held at nearby "hanging tree".
"When I leave this world, I can't carry nothing away from here. Whatever I have, it's going to be left right here for somebody. Some child can get their education, to help them along, because...
Made up of siliceous minerals, the 11-million- year-old southern miss petrified log was found intact rather than in fragments. According to Dr. Bobby Irby, then chairperson of the USM...
The Robert "Bob" Hicks House served as a base of operations for the Bogalusa Civil Rights Movement. It was a safe place for civil rights workers and an emergency medical triage station. The...
Human occupation and settlement of the fertile marshes and estuaries that now include Bayou Sauvage Refuge began before 500 BC. Two local archaeological sites, Big Oak and Little Oak Islands,...
No rocks, no geology-right? Actually, once you know what to look for, it's easy to see evidence of geology at work in this wetland environment.<br> The geologic features of the Mississippi River...
In the early morning hours of August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina swept into coastal Louisiana from the Gulf of Mexico. The eye of the storm passed about 15 miles east of where you are standing. But...
You are standing on one of the levees that protect New Orleans. Because the city lies below sea level, this system of levees and canals is needed to keep it from flooding. The canals also...
TO FRANCES PARKINSON KEYES FOR HER CONTRIBUTION TO LOUISIANA LITERATURE, THE RESTORATION OF BEAUREGARD HOUSE AND GARDEN AND ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KEYES FOUNDATION PLACED HERE BY THE VIEUX CARRE...
BIRTHPLACE DANNY BARKER January 13, 1909 African- American Creole guitar and banjo player, songwriter, composer, singer, author, historian, teacher, storyteller, humorist, actor and painter. Jazz...
VIEUX CARRE HAS BEEN DESIGNATED A REGISTERED NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE HISTORIC SITES ACT OF AUGUST 21, 1935 THIS SITE POSSESSES EXCEPTIONAL VALUE IN...
LOUISIANA STATE BANK BUILDING HAS BEEN DESIGNATED A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK THIS SITE POSSESSES NATIONAL SIGNIFICANCE IN COMMEMORATING THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1983 ...
PARISH ORLEANS LANDMARKS COMMISSION RILLIEUX- WALDHORN HOUSE ERECTED 1795-1800 FOR VINCENT RILLIEUX-1740-1800 NEW ORLEANS MERCHANT AND GREAT-GRANDFATHER OF EDGAR DEGAS NOTED...
Audubon Room This typical creole cottage probably built before 1813, is considered the traditional site of the studio of famed naturalist painter, John James Audubon, and the place in which he...
510 CANAL STREET (BUILDING TO THE RIGHT) This Italianate Style building dates back to the post- Civil War era and is the last of a pair of identical buildings in the city. In 2017 the Sazerac...
MERCHANTS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY BUILDING ERECTED IN 1859 WILLIAM A. FRERET, JR., ARCHITECT C. CROZIER, CARPENTER-BUILDER THE LOCAL FOUNDRY OF BENNETT & LURGES CRAFTED THE CAST-IRON...
610 Tchoupitoulas Street First Renaissance Building Built in 1843 and occupied in the 1930's by Southern Coffee Mills Ltd., coffee producers for Café Du Monde. Purchased and renovated in 1999...
THE NEW ORLEANS MUSICIANS TOMB This historic tomb which since the 19th century had interred the Sacred Union Society and the Barbarin Family now also acts as the New Orleans Musicians Tomb....
IN THE PROTESTANT SECTION OF THIS CEMETERY WERE INTERRED BENJAMIN HENRY BONEVAL LATROBE BORN FULNECK, ENGLAND. MAY 1.1764. DIED NEW ORLEANS, SEPTEMBER 3. 1820 FOUNDER OF THE...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 1933-1945 Day of Infamy Speech "Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and...