In Memory of the First Barrow Stadium

Wesley "Big Train" Barrow was born on November 13, 1900, in West Baton Rouge Parish and debuted in the Negro leagues with the Chattanooga Black Lookouts in 1926. He joined the New Orleans Black Pelicans as a player in 1939 and managed them from 1945, with stops at Nashville and Baltimore, where he was fired in July 1947. He returned to the Pelicans in 1952 and 1953, managed the Detroit-New Orleans Stars in 1960 and then the Gretna Jax Sports, and died on December 24, 1965. His grave in Gretna went unmarked until a headstone was set in 2015.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Congo Square — 4.9 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 Cabildo — 5.0 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.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 5.0 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 Historic New Orleans Collection — 5.1 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

• Pontchartrain Park Historic District — 0.7 mi
• Centennial — 1.8 mi
• Brothers of the Sacred Heart — 2.0 mi
• London Avenue Canal Floodwall Breach — 2.1 mi