Chartier Concession

Pierre Chartier de Baulne, Louisiana's attorney general in 1719, received a grant along Metairie Road on the ground of a former Colapissa village. The Acolapissa, as the name is also spelled, lived on the Pearl River until a band of Chickasaw led by two English slave traders attacked their villages in 1699 to take captives for sale in Charleston. Around 1702 they moved to a bayou on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain, and later they settled near the Mississippi. Disease and French settlement weakened them, and by 1739 their remnants had been absorbed into the Houma.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 3.5 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 — 3.6 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 — 3.9 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.
• The Cabildo — 3.9 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

• City Of Metairie Ridge — steps away
• The New Orleans Katrina Memorial — 0.8 mi
• Charity Hospital Cemetery — 0.9 mi
• Heinemann Park/Pelican Stadium — 1.3 mi