Third Parish Courthouse

The old courthouse vault is now the front door of the West Baton Rouge Museum, and the grounds behind it work as a timeline of the parish's working people. Three cabins moved from Allendale span the years. The first, about 1850, dates from when roughly 150 people were enslaved there; the second interprets Reconstruction and Jim Crow; the third was lived in without plumbing until 2004. The Aillet House, about 1830, was built by enslaved laborers for a sugar farmer of Acadian descent, Jean Dorville Landry.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• 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.
• Capitol Park Museum — 1.3 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.
• Old State Capitol — 1.4 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.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 6.4 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

• Port Allen Prisoner-Of-War Sub-Camp No. 7 — steps away
• Cohn High School — 0.7 mi
• Zachary Taylor Home Site — 1.1 mi
• Battle of Baton Rouge, 1862 — 1.1 mi