Jefferson Parish

Jefferson Parish roughly doubled from 50,427 people in 1940 to 103,873 in 1950, then to 208,769 in 1960 and 337,568 by 1970. Middle-class white families left Orleans Parish for new single-family subdivisions, helped by the postwar baby boom and rising living standards, the Greater New Orleans Bridge in 1958, Veterans Highway in the late 1950s and Interstate 10 in the early 1960s. By the 1960s, racial tensions in New Orleans also led some residents to look for a separate jurisdiction.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 4.6 mi
  The ground of the January 8, 1815 Battle of New Orleans, beside Chalmette National Cemetery and the site of Fazendeville, a freedpeople's community founded in 1867 and bought out in the 1960s.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 4.7 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 5.4 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 — 5.6 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

• Mel Ott — 1.7 mi
• Terrytown — 2.7 mi
• City of Gretna — 2.8 mi
• Bellechasse Plantation — 3.2 mi