He had declined the invitation to become the first governor when the United States purchased Louisiana. Lafayette Square was planned in 1788 as a public place for Faubourg Ste. Marie, the city's first suburb. The General is accompanied by his son, George Washington Lafayette, a secretary and a valet and Fanny Wright 26, a British author and heiress who had accompanied Lafayette since 1821 and is thought to be his lover. The legislature creates the Internal Improvements Board which directs construction of roads levees and bridges.
Agrarian cultivation multiplys rapidly.
The Penal Code of Louisiana is drafted by Edward Livingston, Lislet and Pierre Derbigny. College of Orleans fails and state support is shifted to the College of Louisiana in Jackson , which will become Centenary College, The college was transferred to the Methodist Church in 1845 and relocated at Shreveport in 1908, Centenary is the oldest privately operated liberal arts college west of the Mississippi. Enterprise Plantation, in St. Mary Parish is established by Pierre Simeon Patout in 1825. Originally intended as a vineyard, the plantation was converted to sugar cane. It is the oldest complete working sugar cane plantation in the United States.