Terrytown

Paul Kapelow opened Terrytown to a media tour on March 5, 1960, to show off new ideas in home building, and to the public the next day. He named it for his first daughter, Terry, and his second, Carol Sue, gave her name to an east-west avenue. The original houses had all their plumbing in one wall. The census counted 13,832 people there in 1970, 23,548 in 1980 and 25,278 in 2020. It remains unincorporated, a census-designated place since 1980, with the Oakwood Center mall and a library that opened in October 1974.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 2.9 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 — 3.0 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 — 3.0 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.
• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 3.0 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.

More markers nearby

• McDonoghville — 0.9 mi
• U.S. Marine Hospital — 1.5 mi
• McDonoghville — 1.6 mi
• Mel Ott — 1.6 mi