Jefferson Highway

The highway's Louisiana section ran from this corner through Jefferson Parish and Kenner, along the Mississippi levee to Geismar, then through Baton Rouge, Alexandria, Natchitoches, Mansfield and Shreveport. Its route was finalized in December 1916, and its nickname, the Palm to Pine Highway, named the trees at its two ends. A six-foot Georgia granite obelisk donated by the New Orleans chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution was installed on April 15, 1918, and dedicated in January 1919. Louisiana numbered the whole road State Route 1 in 1921, until the 1955 renumbering.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 0.3 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 — 0.4 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.
• The Cabildo — 0.5 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 — 0.5 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

• Merchants Mutual Insurance Company Building — steps away
• 127-129 Carondelet Street — steps away
• America's First Movie Theater / Vitascope Hall — steps away
• Louis André Martinet / Office of L.A. Martinet, The Crusader & Comité Des Citoyens — steps away