Duelling Grounds

Two oaks once marked the secluded ground where men settled affairs of honor, and one still stands near the art museum, with a small sign; the other fell in a hurricane in 1949. The best-known death is Micajah Green Lewis, private secretary and brother-in-law of Governor Claiborne, killed in 1805 by Robert Sterry. Bernard de Marigny, later president of the Louisiana Senate, was among those who fought here. The land became a public park by court order in 1854, and dueling was outlawed by 1890.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 2.4 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 — 2.4 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 — 2.7 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.
• 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

• Allard Plantation — 0.3 mi
• Beatles Only Concert Performance in Louisiana — 0.4 mi
• Pitot House — 0.5 mi
• The Old Portage — 0.7 mi