Architecture
Madisonville
Madisonville became an important Louisiana shipbuilding center, boasting four shipyards by the late nineteenth century.
Reconstruction Period
Reconstruction Period Index
Architecture
Magnolia Mound Plantation
The antebellum Magnolia Mound plantation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana was constructed in the 1790s.
Geography
Mandeville
Mandeville was founded in 1834, occupying part of what was formerly the sugar plantation of Bernard de Marigny de Mandeville in Louisiana.
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 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.
Art
Marie Seebold
Marie Seebold knew as a child that she wanted to be an artist and began her formal art studies at the age of eleven.
Art
Marion Souchon
New Orleans surgeon Marion Sims Souchon was also a respected self-taught artist who produced more than 500 paintings.
Art
Marshall Joseph Smith Jr.
Marshall Joseph Smith, Jr., a landscape and genre painter, is also credited as the founder the carnival organization Proteus, for which he designed parades and tableaux.
History
Mary Ann Patout
Mary Ann Patout was an important figure in the Louisiana banking and sugar industries.
