Versailles Oaks

The date on these oaks is a quarrel. The usual dating puts the planting in 1783. But maps from 1815 show citrus gardens around the house and no oak alley, and the first map to show the alley is Charles Zimpel's of 1834, which suggests the trees may not have stood during the fighting. The tract was sold at auction in 1832 to Daniel Warburg, who subdivided it and named the development Versailles. The highway, opened in the 1920s, was routed around the ruins, which now sit on a median.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 1.4 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.
• The Cabildo — 5.9 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 5.9 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 Historic New Orleans Collection — 6.0 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.

More markers nearby

• Chalmette National Cemetery — 1.2 mi
• Plantation of Jacques Philippe Villere — 1.4 mi
• Pakenham's Fall — 1.4 mi
• The Kentucky Rifle — 1.6 mi