David Crockett Firehall

The David Crockett Fire Company began as a bucket brigade after a fire in July 1841 and was incorporated in 1844 as the Gretna Fire Company; it took the Crockett name in 1874. The red frame firehall dates from 1859 and was reportedly built without nails, using wooden plugs, with an octagonal cupola. When the levee was moved back from the eroding river, the building was jacked up and shifted to its present lot, bought for $300. Its prized engine is an 1876 Gould steam pumper, said to be the only survivor of 73 built.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 1.5 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 2.5 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 — 2.6 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.
• The Cabildo — 2.7 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

• Stumpf's Magic Hoodoo — steps away
• Centennial Marker — steps away
• Gretna City Hall — steps away
• Mechanickham — steps away