Annunciation Church

The railroad that ran along Elysian Fields was chartered on January 20, 1830, and opened on April 23, 1831, with horse-drawn cars on a route of about six miles from the Faubourg Marigny riverfront to Milneburg on Lake Pontchartrain. Its first steam locomotive, the Shields, arrived in June 1832 and proved unreliable, and regular steam service began that September with the Pontchartrain, built in England. Fares were 15 cents one way for decades. Freight runs continued until 1935, and the last passenger train ran on March 15, 1932, before buses replaced it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Cabildo — 1.0 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.
• Congo Square — 1.0 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 Historic New Orleans Collection — 1.1 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 1.2 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.

More markers nearby

• Plessy v. Ferguson - Press Street Railroad Yards — 0.5 mi
• New Orleans and the Domestic Slave Trade — 0.6 mi
• Faubourg Marigny — 0.6 mi
• Italian Hall — 0.6 mi