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Founded in the 1810s, it is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, and was initially the main neighborhood of its [[free people of color]]. Historically a racially mixed neighborhood, it remains an important center of the city's [[African-American]] and [[Creoles of color|Créole]] culture, especially the modern [[brass band]] tradition. Some sources go so far as to call it the oldest [[African-American neighborhood|Black neighborhood]] in the nation.

 

 

==History==

The Tremé neighborhood began as the Morand Plantation and two forts—St. Ferdinand and St. John. Near the end of the 18th century, Claude Tremé purchased the land from the original plantation owner. By 1794 the [[Carondelet Canal]] was built from the French Quarter to [[Bayou St. John]], splitting the land. Developers began building subdivisions throughout the area to house a diverse population that included Caucasians and free persons of color.<ref>{{cite web

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Tremé abuts the north, or lake, side of the [[French Quarter]], away from the [[Mississippi River]]&mdash;"back of town" as earlier generations of New Orleanians used to say. Its traditional borders were [[Rampart Street]] on the south, Canal Street on the west, [[Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans|Esplanade Avenue]] on the east, and Broad Street on the north. [[Claiborne Avenue]] is a primary thoroughfare through the neighborhood. At the end of the 19th century, the [[Storyville, New Orleans|Storyville]] [[red-light district]] was carved out of the upper part of Tremé; in the 1940s this was torn down and made into a [[public housing]] project. This area is no longer considered part of the neighborhood. The "town square" of Tremé was [[Congo Square]]&mdash;originally known as "Place des Nègres"&mdash;where [[slavery|slave]]s gathered on Sundays to dance. This tradition flourished until the [[United States]] took control, and officials grew more anxious about unsupervised gatherings of slaves in the years before the Civil War.

 

 

In the early 1960s, in an [[urban renewal]] project later considered a mistake by most analysts, a large portion of central Tremé was torn down. The land stood vacant for some time, then in the 1970s the city created [[Louis Armstrong Park (New Orleans)|Louis Armstrong Park]] in the area and named [[Congo Square]] within Armstrong Park. In 1994, the [[New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park]] was established here.

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During [[Hurricane Katrina]], the Tremé neighborhood suffered 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. The neighborhood demographics have changed in recent years due to gentrification and the proliferation of short-term rentals such as [[Airbnb]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}}

 

==African-American heritage sites==

Located in Tremé, the [[New Orleans African American Museum]] is dedicated to protecting, preserving, and promoting through education the history, art, and communities of African Americans in New Orleans and the [[African diaspora]]. It is listed on the [[Louisiana African American Heritage Trail]], as is the community's [[St. Augustine Church (New Orleans)|St. Augustine Church]] &mdash; the oldest African-American [[Catholic Church|Catholic parish]] in the U.S.

 

 

===Adjacent neighborhoods===

* [[French Quarter]] (east)

* [[Iberville Projects]] (south)

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