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In 2004, the parish dedicated a memorial entitled The Tomb of the Unknown Slave. <br /><br /> The creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Slave’s developed over twelve years after a suggestion by a lay rector to the church’s leader, Father LeDoux. <br /><br /> <br /><br /> Courtesy of WikiCommons, Photo by Infrogmation, February, 2005.<br /><br /> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TremeSlaveMonument.jpg

Founded in 1841, St. Augustine is the oldest African-American parish in the United States. The church was founded by free people of color, who purchased additional pews for the enslaved. Civil Rights activists Homer Plessy and A.P. Tureaud,were…

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This building was built after the old structure was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Fort Pike Volunteer Fire Department has served the Rigolets community since 1956. In its earliest days, if a fire began in the Lake Catherine community, the department had to pump water from the surrounding bodies of water to extinguish the blaze.…

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