Plantation of Jacques Philippe Villere

The family's two crises bracket the colonial era. Jacques Villeré was a boy of eight when his father, Joseph Antoine de Villeré, was condemned by Governor Alejandro O'Reilly for joining the Creole Revolt against Spanish rule; he died in October 1769, before the executions, and accounts of how differ. On December 23, 1814, British troops seized the house on Conseil, the family's sugar plantation, worked by enslaved people. Jacques's son, Major Gabriel Villeré, escaped through a window and ran to warn Jackson, who attacked that night.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 2.8 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.
• The Cabildo — 7.3 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 7.3 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 — 7.4 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.

More markers nearby

• Versailles Oaks — 1.4 mi
• Chalmette National Cemetery — 2.6 mi
• Pakenham's Fall — 2.8 mi
• The Kentucky Rifle — 2.9 mi