Fazendeville

The taking came in steps. In 1961 Congressman F. Edward Hébert introduced a bill to enlarge the park, and President Kennedy signed a related resolution in 1962. In 1964 the parish took the land rights, and more than fifty families had to leave. Owners reportedly got about $4,000 a home when a new house nearby cost roughly $19,000. Fazendeville Road closed on November 25, 1964, and demolition finished in 1966. Many moved to the Lower Ninth Ward and built a new Battle Ground Baptist Church. Residents say removing the parish's largest Black community was the point.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 0.3 mi
  The ground of the January 8, 1815 Battle of New Orleans, beside Chalmette National Cemetery and the site of Fazendeville, a freedpeople's community founded in 1867 and bought out in the 1960s.
• The Cabildo — 4.4 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 4.4 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 — 4.5 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

• The Kentucky Rifle — steps away
• Pakenham's Fall — 0.2 mi
• Chalmette National Cemetery — 0.3 mi
• Louisiana Militia — 0.4 mi