Abbé Adrien E. Rouquette

What Adrien Rouquette built among the Chahta (Choctaw) of this shore was small and scattered. He raised a large chapel he called The Nook at Lacombe and three smaller cabin chapels, one on Cane Bayou, which the Creoles called Ravine aux Cannes. He also wrote down what his neighbors told him. In one story a Choctaw man named Vincent declined heaven because he expected Americans to be there, a line that records a Chahta view of the settlers pressing in.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fontainebleau State Park — 5.9 mi
  Lakeshore park on the Northshore where Tchefuncte potters, Acolapissa and Choctaw lived, and where 153 people were enslaved at Marigny's sugar and brick plantation by 1840; the mill ruin still stands.
• Congo Square — 25 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• The Cabildo — 25 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 25 mi
  New Orleans' oldest surviving city of the dead, opened in 1789 after the fire of 1788 and the burial place of Homer Plessy, reachable only on a guided tour since March 2015.

More markers nearby

• History of Camp Salmen — 6.4 mi
• Fontainebleau Plantation Sugar Mill — 6.6 mi
• The Enslaved — 6.7 mi
• Native Peoples — 6.9 mi