Parish of Jefferson

The first Jefferson Parish was far bigger than today's. It ran from Felicity Street in New Orleans to the St. Charles Parish line, and as the city grew it absorbed Lafayette, Jefferson City, Carrollton and several faubourgs; the present border with Orleans was set in 1874. The census counted 6,846 people in 1830 and 10,470 in 1840, then 25,093 in 1850, before the number fell to 15,372 in 1860. It stood at 17,767 in 1870 and 12,166 in 1880, and reached only 21,563 by 1920.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 9.0 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.
• 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.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 9.2 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 — 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

• Park Site — 0.3 mi
• LaFreniere Plantation — 0.4 mi
• Cannes Brûlées — 2.9 mi
• La Providence — 2.9 mi