Margaret's Place and Walk / Lower Garden District

Haughery's money came from milk before bread. Two cows bought with her savings became forty within two years, while the Sisters of Charity gave her a free room in return for her begging rounds for the orphans. In 1859 she took a majority share of the failing D'Aquin Bakery, added crackers and macaroni, and ran the first steam-powered bakery in the South with about forty men on her payroll. When she died in 1882 her pallbearers included the governor, a former governor, the mayor and the archbishop. Her bequest passed $50,000.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 1.1 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.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 1.1 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.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 1.2 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 — 1.3 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.

More markers nearby

• Confederate Memorial Hall — steps away
• Mass Lynching in New Orleans / Racial Violence in America — 0.4 mi
• Higgins Boat (LCVP) — 0.4 mi
• Touro Infirmary — 0.5 mi