Hale Boggs Bridge

Luling began as St. Denis and was known locally as Old Town, Cajun Town and Gassenville before it took the name of a cotton merchant, Florenz Albrecht Luling. Its post office opened in 1887, when the town held perhaps 600 or 700 people among the sugar plantations. Lion Oil built a plant in 1952-54, and Monsanto merged with it in 1955. A levee move in 1938 swallowed riverfront blocks. Sugar plantations named Lone Star, Davis, Ellington and Ashton dominated the land around it.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — 0.9 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.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 17 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.
• Whitney Plantation — 18 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.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 18 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

• Hale Boggs Bridge — 0.8 mi
• George Prince Ferry Memorial — 0.8 mi
• Destrehan Manor House — 0.8 mi
• Destrehan Plantation (1811 Slave Revolt) — 0.9 mi