West Florida Republic and St. Tammany Parish

The parish carries the name of a man from the Delaware Valley. Tamanend, a Delaware (Lenape) leader who lived from about 1628 to 1698, was remembered for making peace with William Penn, and admirers later honored him as a patron saint of America, though no church canonized him. That makes St. Tammany the only one of Louisiana's nine saint-named parishes whose namesake was not a saint. Governor Claiborne created it on October 27, 1810, among the first four Florida Parishes, after President Madison annexed the territory.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fontainebleau State Park — 5.6 mi
  Lakeshore park on the Northshore where Tchefuncte potters, Acolapissa and Choctaw lived, and where 153 people were enslaved at Marigny's sugar and brick plantation by 1840; the mill ruin still stands.

More markers nearby

• Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall — 4.4 mi
• Pottery Hill — 4.5 mi
• Lake Pontchartrain Causeway — 4.7 mi
• Battle of Lake Pontchartrain — 4.8 mi