Union train with sixty men ambushed by Confederate force of Louisiana militia and volunteers on September 4, 1862. Train escaped to New Orleans. Fourteen Union soldiers killed and twenty-two wounded in the skirmish. — — Map (db m58214) HM
Le district des Allemands, settled by Germans about 1720, the scene of numerous skirmishes between Confederate guerillas and Union forces, 1862-63. Most famous skirmish resulted in capture of an entire detachment of Union soldiers on September 4, . . . — — Map (db m58213) HM
The 48-foot Louisiana Lugger Style Wooden Tugboat is believed to be one of the last surviving of its kind. It was built in Bayou Gauche, Louisiana in 1953 by Joseph "Yep" Dufrene for Victor Matherne. In service: 1953-1980 Donated to St. Charles . . . — — Map (db m100387) HM
Father Paret administers the sacrament of Baptism to an infant in a parishioner's home. It is known from Father's journal that he was very often called upon to administer the sacraments in private residences rather than in church. — — Map (db m250053) HM
Father Paret and a friend appear to be enjoying a game of chess in his residence. Although the Civil War era may have left the Presbytery and Little Red Church intact, on May 30, 1877, eight years after Father Paret's departure from St. Charles . . . — — Map (db m250055) HM
To the memory of the intrepid German, Canadian, and French Pioneers who left homeland, endured hazards, survived hardships, and settled on the banks of the Mississippi in the early eighteenth century.
They and their hardy descendants cleared the . . . — — Map (db m250000) HM
Little Red Church Cemetery, the oldest German cemetery in the South, was established on the original Spanish Land Grant of 1770. Part of the cemetery illustrated was later washed away by Mississippi River flood waters and levee realignment, and our . . . — — Map (db m250050) HM
The private chapel in the pastor's residence for celebrating daily mass while using Red Church only on Sunday. It was during this time in Father's tenure at St. Charles that he was planning a chapel to be located on a plot of ground directly across . . . — — Map (db m250056) HM
Father Paret's vegetable garden with 488 trees: orange, peach, pomegranate, persimmon, plum and much more. Livestock was also a part of his everyday life in rural St. Charles, a necessity for everyone. Father's chickens and other fowl were a happy . . . — — Map (db m250057) HM
Constructed 1787-1790 for Robert de Logny, Inherited by Jean Noel d’Estrehan 1800. Bought from heirs of Pierre A. Rost in 1914 by Mexican Petroleum Co. Donated 1972 to River Road Historical Society by American Oil Co. — — Map (db m51607) HM
Destrehan Plantation is
located on the 1811 Slave
Revolt Trail approximately
midway between the start
at the 1811 Kid Ory Historic
House and the ending points
of the revolutionary march
near Kenner, Louisiana It
also served as the . . . — — Map (db m200721) HM
Marker 1 On October 20, 1976, the worst ferry disaster in the history of the United States occurred on the Mississippi River in St. Charles Parish. Seventy-seven lives were lost. The people of Louisiana will never forget you. . . . — — Map (db m109564) HM
The Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement - 1984 Hale Boggs Bridge Awarded in a National Competition by the American Society of Civil Engineers. — — Map (db m109613) HM
This watercolor is the only known representation of the interior of the Little Red Church, Father Paret celebrates mass with an altar boy and sacristan named Francois Xavier Henriette. Could the statue seen to the right of the altar be the same . . . — — Map (db m250052) HM
Originally erected in 1830 at Glendale Plantation, Lucy, Louisiana. Donated by the Lanaux family, moved and reassembled at Destrehan Plantation in 1997.
Dedicated by the River Road Historical Society March 28, 1999. — — Map (db m51606) HM
This watercolor depicts two iconic symbols of Antebellum Louisiana, a planters house and a paddle-wheel boat. Upriver of Little Red Church stands Ormond Plantation seen here in 1859 and known to have been spared destruction by the Civil War. . . . — — Map (db m250054) HM
Father Paret lived here from December 1848 to October 1869, serving parishioners from the Golden Antebellum Age to Reconstruction, a privileged witness to profound changes in all of society. Men are seen gathering driftwood from the Mississippi . . . — — Map (db m250058) HM
Cir. 20 feet 8 inches
Spread 55 feet
Hight 70 feet
Propagated 1852
Live oak trees represent a strong set of roots, a solid base, a majestic stand. These trees have graced this church property since given to us in 1770 and have been silent . . . — — Map (db m250077) HM
Fifty-three years before the Declaration of Independence, five years before New Orleans had a permanent church, immigrants to the German Coast built on the west bank a log chapel to acknowledge their dependence upon God and to express their thanks . . . — — Map (db m85817) HM
Of the thousands that departed France, only 300 German immigrants trickled in to the French Colony of Louisiana in 1721, deluded by John Law's Company of the West propaganda describing Louisiana as "a land filled with gold, silver, copper and lead . . . — — Map (db m86095) HM
600 acres of the Spanish Land Grant were sold in 1918 by Fr. Basty to help pay for the current church that would replace the Little Red Church. — — Map (db m250076) HM
First constructed of logs about 1740. Burned and rebuilt, 1806. Famous riverboat landmark, twenty-five miles from New Orleans where boat captains traditionally paid off their crews. Again burned and rebuilt about 1921. — — Map (db m85770) HM
Bird's Eye View. Looking upriver, this watercolor depicts the St. Charles Church Presbytery, Little Red Church and Ormond Plantation. Many other plantations can be seen across the Mississippi River, all in the heart of St. Charles Parish. This . . . — — Map (db m250049) HM
"... the most important single group of landscape paintings done before the Civil War in Louisiana. Nothing is comparable to them." Pat Bacot, Louisiana State Museum
Father Joseph Michel Paret born in 1807 in Pelussin, France came to Little Red . . . — — Map (db m250048) HM
Home of General Richard Taylor, son of Zachary Taylor, Louisiana statesman and member of the 1861 Secession Convention. Commanded Louisiana District, 1862-64; defeated Banks at Battle of Mansfield, 1864. Federals plundered home in 1862. — — Map (db m58215) HM
Named for O.J. Flagg in 1870; now a part of Hahnville. Letter left here by Tonti in 1686 with Quinipissa chief for LaSalle. Taensa Village, 1713. De Veuve, French Concession, 1718. Site included grant to Joseph Roi de Villere, 1765. — — Map (db m58216) HM
Built in 1790s, this French Colonial raised cottage is of West Indies bousillage construction. Owners included Labranche, Fortier, and Gaillaird. Keller family ownership since 1885. National Historic Landmark. — — Map (db m58211) HM
The Historic Bethlehem Baptist Church was organized in 1865 by the Reverends Tom Peterson and Charles Thornton of New Orleans, Louisiana. They served the congregation until the church ordained the first pastor, the late Reverend Alfred D. Willis. . . . — — Map (db m249998) HM
German immigrants, led by Karl D'Arensbourg, joined other Germans from John Law's Arkansas concession to settle here in 1722. Chapel erected by 1724. These industrious German farmers saved New Orleans from famine. — — Map (db m85346) HM
The Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement - 1984 Hale Boggs Bridge Awarded in a National Competition by the American Society of Civil Engineers. — — Map (db m109557) HM
Settled by Canadians, French. Bienville came here in 1699 from Lake Pontchartrain using small waterways, portage. LeSeur and Canadians used the route and were met here by Iberville and Tonti Feb. 24, 1700. It became part of the "Second German Coast" . . . — — Map (db m100611) HM
The United States Army Corps of Engineers built this spillway to protect the
City of New Orleans from catastrophic flood events. The construction of this
structure marked the end of the levees-only policy and ushered in the era of
flood . . . — — Map (db m302522) HM
As they made their march along the
levee, others joined the rebellion from
plantations along the route Near this
location, after being warned of the
revolt, Francois Trepagnier took on
the revolters and was killed with an
axe by insurgent . . . — — Map (db m307739) HM
The Town of Norco shall be forever grateful to our residents
who served in the Armed Forces to protect and preserve our
freedoms.
This Norco town square and tribute to Norco Veterans was
made possible by the Norco Civic Association . . . — — Map (db m307792) WM
Home of Leon Sarpy, who also purchased Good Hope
and Sarpy Plantations, which became the towns
of New Sarpy, Good Hope, and Sellers. — — Map (db m307934) HM
Namesake of the former town known as Sellers.
Purchased Trepagnier plantation (present day
Norco). Given the name "Colonel Mulberry". — — Map (db m307932) HM
After the Civil War in 1873, Palmer Elkins, a free man of color, purchased property, tracts 8, 9, & 10 for $943.50. Mr. Elkins was the President of the St. Mary Benevolent Association and helped to educate freed men of color. In 1880, he asked . . . — — Map (db m100384) HM
This late eighteenth-early nineteenth century Creole house is of statewide significance because of its exceptional Federal woodwork and its rarity as a plantation dependency. Listed on National Register of Historic Places. — — Map (db m85525) HM
