Louis Armstrong Park

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The Tremé district was originally populated by French-speaking African American Creoles, and modern residents still retain great pride in the neighborhood's history and traditions. Louis Armstrong Park encompasses Congo Square, an American cultural landmark. Now a brick open space, it was the one place where enslaved people were allowed to congregate and play the music they had carried over the seas - a practice outlawed in most other slave-holding societies.