Seven Oaks Plantation Site

About a hundred enslaved people lived in quarters behind the big house, and their work kept Camille Zeringue's sugar crop moving. It also went into the Company Canal, which he helped finance. Digging began in 1830, reached the lakes in 1834 and ran to Bayou Lafourche, with a lock, in 1837, the start of Lockport; state-owned enslaved workers cut part of it. The railroad that crossed his fields in 1853 pulled traffic off the canal, and in 1870 the Texas and Pacific won a suit for 183 acres after Zeringue refused its offer.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 3.6 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 — 5.1 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 5.3 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 — 5.3 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

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• Audubon Zoo — 1.0 mi
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