Plaquemines Parish

Pointe a la Hache is the seat today, and its courthouse has taken blows. The 1915 hurricane destroyed it, salvage went into a new one finished that year, and thirty-one people died in the village in that storm. Betsy flooded the courthouse in 1965, and more than fifty people sheltered inside and survived. Arson severely damaged it on January 12, 2002, and the parish has run from temporary buildings in Belle Chasse since. Three proposals to move the seat were each rejected by voters.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 7.3 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 11 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 Cabildo — 11 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.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 11 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

• St. Malo — 3.3 mi
• Terre-Aux-Boeuf — 3.3 mi
• Fort St. Leon — 3.5 mi
• Bellechasse Plantation — 4.3 mi