Civil War Earthworks

Before the war Madisonville was a working port, shipping bricks and other goods from the towns along the Tchefuncte to New Orleans. Jean Baptiste Baham founded it in 1800 on the site of a Native village called Chiconcte, and it was first called Coquille before it was renamed for President Madison around 1811. When Union forces took New Orleans the area stayed under nominal Confederate control, and with trade across the lines cut off, the local economy was devastated and took decades to recover.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fontainebleau State Park — 9.6 mi
  Lakeshore park on the Northshore where Tchefuncte potters, Acolapissa and Choctaw lived, and where 153 people were enslaved at Marigny's sugar and brick plantation by 1840; the mill ruin still stands.

More markers nearby

• Lake Pontchartrain Causeway — 5.1 mi
• Covington — 6.2 mi
• Walker Percy — 6.2 mi
• Dew Drop Social and Benevolent Hall — 7.0 mi