Elkinsville-Freetown

For a few years Elkinsville had its own post office, 1889 to 1893. When the St. Rose office opened in October 1893 the name that stuck was St. Rose, and Elkinsville faded from the map. Fifth African Baptist Church had been established in 1871 and Mount Zion Baptist in 1874. About seven years before 2016, Richard Smith and Dwayne Harris founded the Elkinsville Historical Restoration Association, which spent nearly four years documenting the settlement before the parish put up a marker in 2016. Many families there trace to someone on the founders list.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — 2.6 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 14 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 — 15 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 — 15 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.

More markers nearby

• Labranche Plantation Dependency — 0.8 mi
• Destrehan Plantation (1811 Slave Revolt) — 2.6 mi
• Destrehan Manor House — 2.7 mi
• George Prince Ferry Memorial — 3.0 mi