McDonoghville

McDonogh died in 1850 and left nearly $2 million for public schools for poor white and free Black children in New Orleans and Baltimore. Heirs contested the will, and a Supreme Court case delayed the bequest until 1858; New Orleans received $704,440 and built more than thirty McDonogh schools. He was first buried on his plantation here beside enslaved people, then moved to Baltimore in 1861 and to a Maryland school campus in 1945. A boycott in 1954 protested the segregated flower ceremony at his grave, and in 2020 protesters toppled his bust in New Orleans.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 1.3 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 — 1.4 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 — 1.4 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 — 1.8 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

• U.S. Marine Hospital — steps away
• Touro Infirmary — 0.7 mi
• McDonoghville — 0.9 mi
• River Rhythms Mural — 0.9 mi