Prospect Plantation (1815-1920)

New Sarpy takes its name from Leon Sarpy, a Civil War veteran who owned several plantations on this reach of the river. Good Hope Baptist Church was established in 1869, four years after the war. A French priest, Father Joseph Michel Paret, painted plantation layouts, fences, gardens and family cemeteries in the parish, and Good Hope Plantation was among his subjects. The New Sarpy post office did not open until November 1937, with Lucy Vander Linden as postmistress, so the name is a twentieth-century one on much older ground.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Destrehan Plantation — 4.7 mi
  A River Road house begun in 1787 where, in January 1811, a tribunal of five slaveholders tried people who had risen on the German Coast, and where an exhibit now tells the revolt.
• Whitney Plantation — 14 mi
  A museum on a former sugar plantation along the River Road that tells its story through the people who were enslaved there, with memorials to 107,000 enslaved Louisianans and 2,200 children.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 20 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.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 21 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.

More markers nearby

• Thomas J. Sellers — steps away
• Trepagnier Plantation — steps away
• Slave Revolt — steps away
• More Gather to Fight For Freedom — 0.9 mi