Faubourg Tremé

Before it was a faubourg, the ground was the Morand Plantation with two forts, St. Ferdinand and St. John. By 1794 the Carondelet Canal ran from the French Quarter to Bayou St. John and split the land. After Claude Tremé's land was laid out in 1810, the area became the main neighborhood of the city's free people of color, though later it was racially mixed. In the early 1960s a large part of central Tremé was torn down, and most analysts later considered that a mistake. The HBO series Treme, set after Hurricane Katrina, began in 2010.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Congo Square — 0.5 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.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 0.7 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.
• The Cabildo — 0.8 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.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 0.9 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

• Tomb of the Unknown Slave — 0.3 mi
• Saint Augustine Church, New Orleans — 0.3 mi
• Mahalia Jackson — 0.4 mi
• Sicilian Immigration to Louisiana - 1891 Massacre and Lynching of Italians — 0.5 mi