Flagville

Flagville never caught on, and the town that did is named for a Union man. Michael Hahn was the Union governor of Louisiana in 1864 and later served in Congress and as a judge. The post office called Hahnville opened on May 14, 1880, with Thomas C. Madere as postmaster, though a courthouse had been established on the site as early as 1804. The ground was earlier a Native village called Quinnitassa, and the first post office here, opened in 1843, was simply named St. Charles.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — 2.8 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.
• Whitney Plantation — 16 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 19 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 — 20 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.

More markers nearby

• Home Place — 0.5 mi
• Fashion Plantation — 0.6 mi
• "Denver" — 1.4 mi
• More Gather to Fight For Freedom — 1.8 mi