Excavations at the Cabildo

ID: 5897 ~ Source: Collections of the UNO Archaeology Lab ~ Creator: Earth Search, Inc.
This file appears in: The Cabildo
Excavations at the Cabildo

Dr. Jill-Karen Yakubik of Earth Search, Inc., during excavations in the courtyard at the Cabildo

This file appears in: The Cabildo

By D. Ryan Gray
Today, the Cabildo is a facility of the Louisiana State Museum, but the courtyard of the Cabildo was the location of a city prison complex for nearly two hundred years, across French, Spanish, and American rule. Constructed in 1730, the prison and…