Avondale~Waggaman

George Augustus Waggaman was born in 1782 in Caroline County, Maryland, and served under Andrew Jackson at New Orleans. He held a string of Louisiana offices: district attorney, circuit judge, criminal court judge and secretary of state. From 1831 to 1835 he sat in the US Senate, filling the seat Edward Livingston resigned. He went back to sugar planting afterward, work done in that decade by enslaved people. He fought a duel with Denis Prieur, a former New Orleans mayor, and died on March 31, 1843; his daughter Christine had eloped with John Sandfield Macdonald, a future premier.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 7.2 mi
  The Garden District's 1833 cemetery of about 1,100 family tombs, closed to visitors in 2019 and reopened on October 1, 2026 for small guided tours run by the Preservation Resource Center.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 8.6 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.
• Congo Square — 8.8 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 — 8.9 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

• Wedell - Williams Airport Site — 3.0 mi
• Westwego — 3.1 mi
• Huey P. Long Bridge — 3.2 mi
• La Providence — 3.7 mi