Town of Carrollton

Carrollton was laid out in 1833 as a town of its own and incorporated in 1845. Its courthouse, completed in 1855 to a design by Henry Howard, who also designed Nottoway and Madewood plantations, served both the town and Jefferson Parish until New Orleans annexed Carrollton in 1874 and made it the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Wards. The building later housed several schools, stood vacant from 2013 to 2023, and then reopened as an assisted-living residence called The Carrollton. The St. Charles Avenue streetcar line still runs down the median of Carrollton Avenue.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• 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.
• St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 — 3.8 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.
• Congo Square — 4.1 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 4.1 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

• H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College — 0.7 mi
• Newcomb Pottery Garden — 0.7 mi
• Audubon Park History — 1.3 mi
• Boré Plantation - Audubon Park — 1.5 mi