New Orleans African American Museum
Brick Creole cottage and plantation-turned-freedom ground, raised above the water table on a swamp's first brickyard.
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This guide to the New Orleans African American Museum starts in the mud of Bayou Road in 1725, long before the Tremé neighborhood existed. You'll meet a French hatmaker who carved the land into lots, the free people of color who bought them, and the brick Creole house that stands on the grounds today. Best heard on the museum grounds, with the house in front of you.
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