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Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, the oldest bar in the country

Bourbon Street, French Quarter · 1772

Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, the oldest bar in the country

One of the oldest structures in the country used as a bar, in French Creole brick-between-post construction. The story that the Lafitte brothers ran it as a front for smuggling is unproven and very old.

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