New Orleans French Quarter Yellow Fever Mystery Walk

Begin under the colonnade of the French Market (trading since the 1790s, one of America's oldest public markets). You open Dufilho's coded letter and decode the first French word,— the sharing of scarce remedies that kept the poor alive.(15 min)

At the Old Ursuline Convent (1752), the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley, the nuns turned their halls into a fever ward. the care that comforted the dying.(15 min)

Before the raised mansion (1826) of General P.G.T. Beauregard — bravery tested not by cannon but by contagion(15 min)

Beneath the wrought-iron balconies of Bourbon Street, the storied heart of the Quarter's nightlife.(15 min)

Before the famous oak-leaf cast-iron balcony of the LaBranche House (1830s) at Royal & St. Peter, where families once hung mourning crepe(15 min)

At the Cabildo (1799), the Spanish colonial seat of government and site of the Louisiana Purchase transfer(15 min)

Beneath the three steeples of St. Louis Cathedral, the oldest continuously active cathedral in the USA(15 min)

At the Presbytère (1813), the Cabildo's twin that now keeps the records of the city's resilience(15 min)

At the heart of the old Place d'Armes, before Andrew Jackson's bronze statue(15 min)

Conclude at the 1823 apothecary of Dufilho himself (514 Chartres St), America's first licensed pharmacist.(15 min)