Poblacion de Barataria (Barataria Settlement)

Barataria was one of four Canary Islander settlements Spain planted in Louisiana between 1778 and 1783, when roughly two thousand people came on eight ships. The others were Galveztown near Bayou Manchac, Valenzuela on Bayou Lafourche and San Bernardo, now St. Bernard Parish. Spain chose the sites for defense, not farming, and disease, hurricanes and floods soon finished Barataria and Galveztown. Only St. Bernard kept its name and a distinct Isleño identity, with sung décimas, duck decoys and a heritage society founded in 1975.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Barataria Preserve — 1.7 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park unit of bayou, swamp and marsh on the site of a Chitimacha and Houma shell-mound landscape, with the visitor center and most trails closed for about two years of repairs.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 8.5 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.
• 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 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

• Manila Village — 5.1 mi
• Woodlawn High School and the Struggle for Racial Equality — 6.5 mi
• Mary Plantation — 6.8 mi
• Westwego — 6.9 mi