Boré Plantation - Audubon Park

Granulated sugar was not Boré's work alone. His cane stock came from Mendez and Solís, who made tafia, a spirit, and Antoine Morin, a free man of color from Saint-Domingue with training in chemistry and botany, helped him make the first granulated sugar known in the colony. Granulation created demand for cane, which became Louisiana's main commodity crop. While the estate raised indigo it held more than eighty enslaved people of African and American descent. It lay about six miles above New Orleans, and the city annexed it in 1870.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 2.8 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 — 4.4 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 4.6 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 — 4.6 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

• The Original Teddy Bear — 0.2 mi
• The Flood of 1927 — 0.2 mi
• Audubon Park History — 0.3 mi
• Gilbert Academy and New Orleans University — 1.3 mi