John Archer LeJeune

Historical marker location:

New Roads, Louisiana

( Memorial is on Court Street, 0.1 miles south of East Main Street (Louisiana Highway 413), on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 2000

Lieutenant General, U.S. Marine Corps. 1867-1942.

Louisiana was originally a French colony, named after King Louis XIV of France. The area was first explored by the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, in 1682.