<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Treme</strong></span><br/><strong><em>Aspects</em></strong>: Birthplace of Jazz, Restless Spirits of Freedom<br/><br/>New Orleans' Tremé neighborhood is geographically the part of the city that lies between North Rampart and North Broad, and from Canal Street to St. Bernard Avenue. The area received its namesake from Claude Tremé, a model hat maker and real estate developer who migrated from Saugivny in Burgundy, France, and settled in New Orleans in 1783. Tremé owned only a small portion of the area that bore his name and was in possession of it for just a decade.<br/><br/>In later years, free persons of color and eventually those African slaves who obtained, bought, or bargained for their freedom were able to acquire and own property in Tremé. There are hundreds of examples of 18th and early 19th century ownership of large and small land areas in Faubourg Tremé by free persons of color. The ability to acquire, purchase, and own real property during an era when America was still immersed in slavery was remarkable and only in New Orleans did this occur with any regularity and consistency.<br/><br/>Today, New Orleans' Tremé neighborhood is the locale for visitors and natives alike to celebrate the achievements of African Americans. Various celebrations like second-line parades and jazz funerals are only a few of the lively ways Tremé honors its heritage. Scholars and historians have shared their immense knowledge with New Orleans residents and now Tremé is home to several museums dedicated to African American life, art, and history, as well as Armstrong Park, a memorial to the great jazz legend Louis Armstrong.<br/><br/>The Tremé is still one of the major hotbeds for live music in New Orleans. This neighborhood invented jazz, and today it is still dotted with underground music clubs. Favorites include the Candlelight Lounge and the Andrews family’s famous Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bar.<br/><br/>In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Tremé neighborhood received minor to moderate flooding. In the portion of the neighborhood in from I-10, the water was generally not high enough to damage many of the old raised homes.<br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Locations</strong></span><br/><br/><br/><strong>Louis Armstrong Park and Congo Square</strong><br/><strong><em>Aspects:</em></strong>Always Crowded<br/><br/>Just beyond the French Quarter, all you have to do is look for the arch of Louis Armstrong Park on Rampart Street to know that you've found the Tremé. The 32-acre Armstrong Park is the neighborhood's dominant landmark. Within its gates you'll find the legendary Congo Square where the enslaved, free people of color, Europeans and Americans gathered throughout the 18th and 19th century on Sundays to drum, dance and trade. Here, African dance, rhythms and drum beats survived despite oppression and contributed to the first forms of jazz music and modern American dance.<br/><br/>Armstrong Park is also home to the Mahalia Jackson Theater of the Performing Arts which hosts the Louisiana Philharmonic, New Orleans Opera Association, dance performances and Broadway Across America productions. The 2,100-seat theater offers a wide-range of entertainment.<br/><br/><br/><strong>St. Louis Cemetery No. 1</strong><br/><strong><em>Aspects:</em></strong>City of the Dead, Labyrinthine, Forest of Stone<br/><br/>Treme is also home to St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. Founded in 1789, the cemetery is located at Basin and St. Louis Streets and is one of New Orleans' most famous "cities of the dead." St. Louis No. 1 was immortalized in the film Easy Rider and is the final resting place of civil rights activist Homer Plessy and New Orleans' most famous Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau.<br/>