Chalmette Monument

The obelisk was built in fits. The cornerstone was laid in 1840, the state began building in 1855, and the Civil War stopped the work. In the 1890s the Louisiana Society of the Daughters of 1776 and 1812 lobbied officials, and federal support came under Theodore Roosevelt. On March 4, 1907, Congress made the monument and grounds a War Department site, and the shaft was finished in 1908 with federal money. Hurricane Katrina damaged it in 2005, and it reopened on September 28, 2013.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 0.2 mi
  The ground of the January 8, 1815 Battle of New Orleans, beside Chalmette National Cemetery and the site of Fazendeville, a freedpeople's community founded in 1867 and bought out in the 1960s.
• The Cabildo — 4.3 mi
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 4.3 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 4.4 mi
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.

More markers nearby

• Louisiana Militia — steps away
• Mississippi Militia — steps away
• Kentucky Militia — steps away
• U.S. Navy — steps away