Westwego

Sala Avenue was once called Cannery Row. Pablo Sala, a Spaniard of 65, bought part of the Zeringue plantation in 1892 and laid out 162 lots; among the first residents were Black families who had been enslaved there. The seafood canneries drew Cajun, Creole and Black workers, and Westwego's population nearly tripled to about 500 between 1893 and 1899. A fire on April 14, 1907 destroyed 42 buildings and left up to 600 people homeless. In 1942 a study counted 567 cannery workers: 83 percent women, nearly 60 percent Black.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 — 4.4 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 — 6.3 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 6.4 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 — 6.4 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

• The Original Teddy Bear — 1.8 mi
• The Flood of 1927 — 1.8 mi
• Boré Plantation - Audubon Park — 1.9 mi
• Audubon Park History — 2.2 mi