After the Battle

The planter did not live to see the sale. Ignace de Lino de Chalmette left his mansion in a hurry as the British came, and his family's enslaved people carried some household treasures through Jackson's lines, saving only a small part. He stayed in a small house on Bourbon Street. On February 2, 1815, he rode out and found the house burned. At 59 he thought his fortune beyond repair, and he died on February 10, buried in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. His heirs sold the battle-scarred plantation in 1817 to Hilaire and Louis St. Amand.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 0.3 mi
  The ground of the January 8, 1815 Battle of New Orleans, beside Chalmette National Cemetery and the site of Fazendeville, a freedpeople's community founded in 1867 and bought out in the 1960s.
• The Cabildo — 4.3 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 4.3 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 4.4 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.

More markers nearby

• Batteries Two and Three — steps away
• In Memory of Major Samuel Spotts — steps away
• Fazendeville (the Village) — steps away
• U.S. Marines — steps away