Cannes Brûlées

The place had a French name before it had Kenner's. Minor Kenner founded the town on March 2, 1855, from three plantations his family had bought: Oakland, Belle Grove and Pasture. Land north of today's Airline Highway was still swamp. Kenner incorporated in 1867, again in 1873 and again in 1913, and a streetcar ran from New Orleans from 1915 to 1931. Real growth waited for the late 1950s, when developers drained the swamp: 2,375 people in 1940, 5,535 in 1950 and 17,037 in 1960.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — 7.3 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 10 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 — 11 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 — 11 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.

More markers nearby

• First World Championship Heavyweight Prize Fight Monument — steps away
• La Providence — 1.7 mi
• LaFreniere Plantation — 2.6 mi
• Labranche Plantation Dependency — 4.2 mi