Birdsall Building

Historical marker location:

920 Poydras Street, New Orleans, Louisiana

( Marker is at the intersection of Poydras Street and Penn Street, on the right when traveling east on Poydras Street.)

Marker installed: 1993

Louisiana was briefly an independent republic. After declaring independence from Spain in 1810, a group of Louisianans established the Republic of West Florida, which included parts of what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. However, the republic was short-lived, as it was quickly annexed by the United States.