Don Juan Filhiol Historic Preservation District

Filhiol's land grant straddled the Ouachita, which is why the commandant of Fort Miro, on the Monroe side, was buried on the West Monroe side. He surveyed his Crown grant in 1785 on both banks, retired in 1800 after fifteen years in command, and lived on the plantation until he died on September 28, 1821, at 81. He was buried there, near the river. In 1783 he had come upriver from New Orleans with soldiers, his wife and enslaved people to found the post. This marker stands across the river from the Fort Miro marker.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Masur Museum of Art — 0.8 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 1.5 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 3.9 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 5.8 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.

More markers nearby

• Webb Pierce — steps away
• Prairie des Canots Seat of Justice — 0.2 mi
• The Ouachita Candy Company Building — 0.3 mi
• Site of First City Hall of West Monroe — 0.3 mi