St. Malo

The village took its name from a man who fled slavery. Jean Saint Malo, also written Juan San Maló, led a Maroon community, people who had escaped enslavement, hidden in the marsh near Lake Borgne at Bas du Fleuve, in present St. Bernard Parish. In 1783 a Spanish expedition under Francisco Bouligny attacked it and took about sixty people, Saint Malo among them. He was convicted of murder and hanged on June 19, 1784, in front of the church of St. Louis in New Orleans. A fishing settlement of Filipino sailors later carried his name.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 9.4 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 — 14 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 — 14 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 — 14 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

• Terre-Aux-Boeuf — steps away
• Plaquemines Parish — 3.3 mi
• Fort St. Leon — 6.5 mi
• Plantation of Jacques Philippe Villere — 6.7 mi