Archaeology Finds Our Past

Two teams dug during the Iberville redevelopment: Earth Search, Inc. and the University of New Orleans, whose field school worked the site in the summer of 2013. The project's footprint nearly matched Storyville, which ran from 1898 to 1917 and was long closed when the project opened in 1941. One household on Square 130, in the area that later became Storyville, left a French tin-glazed faience rouge pot from the later 1800s. D. Ryan Gray argues that erasing Storyville and its segregated counterpart let histories leave out the ties between labor, race and sexuality under Jim Crow.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — steps away
  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.
• Congo Square — 0.3 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 — 0.4 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.
• The Cabildo — 0.5 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.

More markers nearby

• Basin Street — steps away
• From Iberville Housing Development to Bienville Basin — steps away
• Déterrer Storyville — steps away
• Benito Juarez — steps away