Starting Point of the First New Orleans Mardi Gras Parade Marker
New Orleans, LA
A historical marker identifies the area associated with the Mistick Krewe of Comus procession of 1857, a major turning point in the development of organized Mardi Gras parades. It gives travelers a concrete point for a tradition otherwise spread across the city.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: hmdb.org/m.asp