Fazendeville (the Village)

Residents called Fazendeville the Village, a one-street community of 33 lots. Battle Ground Baptist Church was established in April 1868, and in 1881 residents formed the Progressive Mutual Aid and Benevolent Association for medical care and burials. In 1890 they marked the Emancipation Proclamation with speeches and a concert by the Chalmette Brass Band. A 1927 fire left about 60 people homeless, and the church laid a new cornerstone in 1928. The school had 65 pupils that year, and in June 1953 the community held a mass baptism in the river.

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 — 4.5 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 — 4.5 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 — 4.6 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

• After the Battle — steps away
• British Batteries — steps away
• Batteries Two and Three — steps away
• In Memory of Major Samuel Spotts — steps away