LaFreniere Plantation

Spain's first governor, Antonio de Ulloa, arrived in 1766 with about ninety soldiers and a plan to close trade with France and other nations. Merchants, officials and German settlers near New Orleans turned against him. Riots in October 1768 led the Superior Council to order him out, and he left that November. The next summer Alejandro O'Reilly came with about 2,100 soldiers. Five organizers were shot in October 1769: Lafrenière, Pierre Marquis, Joseph Milhet, Pierre Caresse and Jean-Baptiste de Noyan. Joseph Villeré died before sentencing.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 8.9 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.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 9.1 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.
• Congo Square — 9.1 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 — 9.3 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

• La Providence — 2.6 mi
• Cannes Brûlées — 2.6 mi
• First World Championship Heavyweight Prize Fight Monument — 2.6 mi
• Wedell - Williams Airport Site — 3.9 mi