Fazendeville, Louisiana

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Fazendeville, Louisiana was a small community in Saint Bernard Parish, Louisiana which was dismantled in the 1960s.

Fazendeville located on land that had been a portion of the battlefield of The Battle of New Orleans, between the Chalmette National Cemetery and the Chalmette Monument.

The African-American community began in 1867 and ended in 1964 when the St. Bernard Parish Government expropriated the rights to the land for expansion of the park around the battlefield site. Allegations were made at the time (and continue to be made) that the expropriation was motivated at least as much to displace the Parish's largest concentration of African Americans as for need to expand the park.

The self contained community had its own general stores, a one-room schoolhouse, two benevolent societies and The Battle Ground Baptist Church. It is believed somewhere near 30 families were forced to relocate when the National Park Service obtained the land and demolished the structures.

Some of those families relocated to the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans which was severely damaged in Hurricane Katrina in 2005.