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Congo Square
Historical landmark · Treme ·
Congo Square
Historical landmark · Treme ·
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Black Entrepreneurs Are Leading New Orleans’s Sober Bar Movement | Eater New Orleans
"I noted that Congo Square, at the site of what is now Louis Armstrong Park, served as a meeting ground for the city’s enslaved African American population as early as the 1740s and is historically where African American women first began selling pralines and calas in the 1800s; locals and vendors like Rhadell Green describe feeling an "ancestral spirit" there, which informed Green’s decision to locate and protect her sober bar presence in front of the Louis Armstrong arch." - Clair Lorell
