Congo Square is a three-acre open space located within Louis Armstrong Park, marked by its history as a rare gathering ground for enslaved Africans and free people of color in New Orleans. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth…
Treme Creole Heritage
This walk leads you through the streets of America’s oldest African-American neighborhood, showcasing its landmark churches, jazz roots, and deep civil rights history. You'll learn how free people of color and enslaved communities created the cultural heartbeat of New Orleans.
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1. Congo Square
2. Backstreet Cultural Museum
The Backstreet Cultural Museum sits on Saint Philip Street in the Tremé, a neighborhood known as the oldest African American community in the United States. You can identify the building by its exterior, which features cutout mural…
3. Treme's Petit Jazz Museum
Treme’s Petit Jazz Museum occupies a small, cozy space at fifteen hundred Governor Nicholls Street, filled with photographs, musical instruments, and archival documents. Founded in twenty seventeen by Al Jackson, a Treme native and…
4. Saint Augustine Catholic Church
Saint Augustine Catholic Church is identified by the Tomb of the Unknown Slave, a shrine in the garden plot consisting of large marine chains welded into the shape of a cross. Dedicated on October ninth, eighteen forty-two, the church was…
5. Tomb of the Unknown Slave (St. Augustine Churchyard)
Next to the walls of the Saint Augustine Catholic Church sits an iron cross formed from heavy chains and rusted metal shackles. This monument, known as the Tomb of the Unknown Slave, stands within the churchyard to honor the nameless and…