Historic Riverlands Church in Reserve stands a few miles upriver from where the 1811 slave revolt began. In 2005, the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its local significance in religion, social history, and ethnic heritage. The building is the original Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church, built in the River Parishes specifically for African American parishioners because of segregation during the Jim Crow Era. In 2019, the nationally acclaimed Slave Rebellion Reenactment used its grounds for meetings, costume fittings, and rehearsals. Inside the sanctuary, the Soul River Music Journey traces music inspired and produced by African Americans from African musical roots and early development between 1700 and 1865 in the context of slavery, emancipation, and the slave revolt of 1811 to hip hop, modern gospel, and jazz fusion, while also recognizing the local artist Kid Ory. The nearby 1811 slave revolt began on the night of January 8, 1811, when up to 500 enslaved people took up arms at a plantation owned by Manuel Andry, now the 1811 Kid Ory Historic House in LaPlace, Louisiana. They marched down River Road toward New Orleans, killed two plantation owners, burned several buildings, and were joined by other enslaved people over two days. After an initial encounter with militia near Kenner, they were forced back to near present-day Norco, where a brutal clash and subsequent trials at Destrehan Plantation and other locations left about 100 participants dead. Many were beheaded, and their heads were staked on the levee in front of plantations for nearly 60 miles as a warning. Though unsuccessful, the rebellion reverberated across the young United States as the first of several large-scale militant actions against slavery across the South in the decades before the Civil War and emancipation.