Plaza
Jackson Square
Jackson Square, New Orleans, LA 70116, USA
Landscaped public square framed by matching red-brick row houses with the city's first cast-iron balconies.
This guide to Jackson Square in New Orleans opens far from the city, in a Paris bedroom in 1834, where a young heiress named Micaela Almonester was shot four times by her own father-in-law over money and survived. It follows her recovery and rise as the Baroness de Pontalba, who returned to New Orleans years later to find the family's old parade ground crumbling. You will hear what she decided to do with the two ruined properties flanking it, and why her own initials ended up worked into the ironwork above you.
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