Jefferson Highway

At the road's southern end, a six-foot granite obelisk at St. Charles Avenue and Common Street, given by the New Orleans chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, was set up in April 1918 and dedicated in January 1919. The route was fixed in December 1916 and ran through Kenner, up the river levee to Baton Rouge, then on to Alexandria, Natchitoches and Shreveport. Louisiana numbered it State Route 1 in 1921, and by 1926 federal numbering had split it into US 61, 71, 171 and 80. Stretches like this one still carry the name.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 4.6 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 — 4.7 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.
• 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 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

• Camp Parapet — 0.5 mi
• Marsalis Mansion Motel — 0.8 mi
• Town of Carrollton — 1.7 mi
• Huey P. Long Bridge — 1.7 mi