City Of Harahan

Harahan began as railroad ground. The Illinois Central put a repair yard and roundhouse beside today's city hall in 1894, and in 1914 a land company of railroad officials subdivided the old Southern University tract; early residents were railroad workers, river workers and truck farmers. Until the Huey P. Long Bridge opened in 1930, this was one of the few places to get rail cars across the Mississippi: the Illinois Central and Southern Pacific ran a ferry to Avondale, loaded by an incline over the levee.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 6.5 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 — 7.4 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.
• Congo Square — 7.6 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 — 7.7 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

• Tchoupitoulas Plantation — 0.9 mi
• Wedell - Williams Airport Site — 1.0 mi
• Huey P. Long Bridge — 1.4 mi
• Avondale~Waggaman — 2.1 mi