Jefferson City

By 1850 Jefferson City had been stitched together from seven privately platted faubourgs: Plaisance, Delachaise, St. Joseph, East and West Bouligny, Avart and Rickerville. That patchwork is why its lots are wedge-shaped and its grid bends with the river. The St. Charles and Carrollton Railroad, running since 1833, fed the growth. For about twenty years the chartered city kept its own government, schools, cemeteries and port. New Orleans annexed it in 1870, along with Hurstville, Bloomingdale and the land that became Audubon Park, and accounts describe the takeover as hostile.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 1.9 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 — 3.7 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 3.8 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 — 3.8 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

• Gilbert Academy and New Orleans University — 0.5 mi
• Judge John Howard Ferguson House — 0.7 mi
• Audubon Park History — 0.9 mi
• Faubourg Bouligny — 0.9 mi