School for the Deaf

Eleven students and the superintendent arrived on December 8, 1852, to open classes in the old Baton Rouge College building. For decades Black deaf and blind children had a separate school, supervised by Southern University until it was split into a deaf school and a blind school in 1938. The state merged it into the Louisiana School for the Deaf in 1978, and Black students moved to this Mayflower campus until 1985, when a new campus opened on Brightside Lane south of LSU.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Old State Capitol — 0.5 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• Capitol Park Museum — 0.9 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 1.1 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 4.6 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• Beauregard Town — 0.2 mi
• John Archer Lejeune — 0.4 mi
• Bogalusa to Baton Rouge March — 0.4 mi
• The C.O.R.E. March — 0.4 mi