Livingston Parish

The parish is named for a lawyer who wrote more law than Louisiana adopted. Edward Livingston, born in New York in 1764, was mayor of New York City until a clerk's misconduct cost public money; he gave up his property, moved to New Orleans in 1804, rebuilt a practice and repaid the federal government in full in 1826. He led the commission behind the civil code adopted in 1825. His criminal code, redrafted after a fire destroyed the first, was printed in 1833 but never adopted. He served Andrew Jackson as Secretary of State.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tickfaw State Park — 10.0 mi
  A floodplain park on the Tickfaw River, with cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland hardwoods and about 4.75 miles of trails and boardwalks, plus a nature center with an 800-gallon river aquarium.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 22 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.
• Capitol Park Museum — 26 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 26 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.

More markers nearby

• Centerville, Louisiana — 5.1 mi
• Walker, Louisiana — 6.7 mi
• Albany, Louisiana — 10 mi
• Hungarian Settlement — 10 mi