Geography
Mandeville
Mandeville was founded in 1834, occupying part of what was formerly the sugar plantation of Bernard de Marigny de Mandeville in Louisiana.
Antebellum Period
Antebellum Period Index
Folklife
Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Mardi Gras in New Orleans is celebrated by costumed revelers, krewes, floats and flambeaux, parades, and masked balls.
Folklife
Mardi Gras Indians
Mardi Gras Indians have become recognizable symbols of New Orleans's unique local culture, yet remain closely tied to their specific communities and traditions.
History
Margaret Haughery
Margaret Gaffney Haughery was a successful business entrepreneur and noted philanthropist of nineteenth-century New Orleans.
Art
Marie Adrien Persac
Painter, photographer, surveyor, lithographer, and inventor Marie Adrien Persac was the most important delineator of plantatino scenes in nineteenth-century Louisiana.
History
Marie Couvent
Marie Couvent, also known as Marie Justine Cirnaire, was a wealthy free woman of color in New Orleans who donated property for use as a free school.
History
Marie Laveau
Marie Laveau was a free woman of color born in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Laveau assumed the leadership role of a multiracial religious community for which she gave consultations and held ceremonies. During her time, she was known as "The Priestess of the Voudous"; among many other colorful titles.
Archaeology
Marie Thérèse Coincoin
Coincoin, a formerly enslaved woman freed in colonial Natchitoches, is an icon of American slavery and Louisiana’s Creole culture.
History
Mary Ann Patout
Mary Ann Patout was an important figure in the Louisiana banking and sugar industries.
Art
Matthew Jouett
Matthew Harris Jouett was recognized during his lifetime as the first notable American artist to emerge from the American frontier.
Art
Meyer Strauss
Artist Meyer Straus, a leading theater scenery painter, also produced masterful landscapes during his time in Louisiana.
History
Micaela Almonester, Baroness Pontalba
Micaela Leonarda Almonester de Pontalba was the sponsor of landmark architectural complexes in her native Louisiana, as well as in France, her home for sixty-seven years.
