Damascus Cemetery

This cemetery is a landmark in the Bland Community.

The old Damascus Church, built in 1900, stood several miles to the northeast on County Road 1491, on a site marked today by a commemorative sign.

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Sylvania African Methodist Episcopal Church

In the mid 1800s African Americans worshiped with white parishioners at Moss Hill Church. Sylvania AME Church was established as the community's African American church a few miles from Moss Hill.

Its deed was signed in county records in 1902. ...

Roulhac School

Washington County's distinguished black educator, T.J. Roulhac, became supervisor of Washington County black schools in 1913.

This building was operated as a black high school from 1938 until 1968. Mr. Roulhac served as its first principal. It became a middle ...

Tivoli School

Tivoli School opened in 1912 to serve black students in elementary and junior high grades. By 1938 the school taught grades one through twelve until its closing in 1969 during desegregation. The Tivoli Complex is now home to the administartive ...

Historic St. Mary's City

Historic St. Mary's city is the site of the first colony established in the state of Maryland.

In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, England began efforts to develop a New World empire in North America. The beginnings were financed ...

Louisiana Supreme Court Building

The Louisiana Supreme Court building has a tumultuous past and has not always been a popular resident of Royal Street.

The site that the court now occupies has been in use by New Orleans residents and merchants since the 18th century ...

2nd City Criminal Court and Police Station

This structure, constructed in 1915 by local contractor James Perry based on designs by New Orleans city architect Edgar Angelo Christy, is a classic example of the Beaux Arts style. The building initially served as a municipal courthouse and as ...

First Skyscraper

This massive four-story building is locally referred to as "The First Skyscraper" and also "Sieur George's House" because of its reference in the famous George Washington Cable story of the same name.

The building was constructed around 1811 and was ...

Ursuline Convent

Founded in 1727 by the Ursuline Order of nuns, the Ursuline Convent is the oldest and most complete example of French Colonial architecture in America and oldest building in the Mississippi Valley.

The Ursuline Order came to New Orleans at ...

National Historic Landmark- New Orleans Cotton Exchange

The New Orleans Cotton Exchange was incorporated in 1871. The purpose of the organization was to help to standardize and make accessible information related to the cotton industry, thereby stabilizing the often erratic and chaotic speculative market pricing. At the ...