Original Lone Star Republic

The flag was simple: one white star on a blue field, sewn by Melissa Johnson, wife of Major Isaac Johnson, who commanded the Feliciana cavalry. It went up over Fort San Carlos at Baton Rouge on September 23, 1810. The rebels raised it again on March 11, 1811, well after the republic had been annexed, and that forced Governor Claiborne to send troops. Its resemblance to the Bonnie Blue flag of the Civil War era is often noted.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fontainebleau State Park — 19 mi
  Lakeshore park on the Northshore where Tchefuncte potters, Acolapissa and Choctaw lived, and where 153 people were enslaved at Marigny's sugar and brick plantation by 1840; the mill ruin still stands.
• Chalmette Battlefield — 30 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.
• Congo Square — 32 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 Cabildo — 32 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

• Indian Village — 3.4 mi
• History of Camp Salmen — 6.8 mi
• Abbé Adrien E. Rouquette — 13 mi
• Fontainebleau Plantation Sugar Mill — 20 mi