Fort Miro

Governor Esteban Miró sent swivel guns and munitions, but the money and labor for the fort that carries his name came mostly from Don Juan Filhiol. In August 1790 Filhiol asked for funds and proposed the name. His first plan, a palisade of about 1,020 upright logs, was dropped when promised timber never arrived, so the builders laid logs horizontally and raised four covered bastions with iron spikes along the rim. It was finished in February 1791, and Filhiol then governed the district from his own house inside it. A 1973 dig could not settle where the fort stood.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Masur Museum of Art — 0.5 mi
  A 1929 limestone Tudor house on South Grand Street, built by a Monroe lumberman and given to the city in 1963 by the Masur family to become its art museum.
• Biedenharn Museum and Gardens — 1.7 mi
  The 1913 Monroe home of the man the museum credits with first bottling Coca-Cola, with a Coca-Cola museum, his daughter's Bible collection and her gardens.
• Chennault Aviation and Military Museum — 3.7 mi
  A Monroe museum that began as a 1986 reunion of Selman Field airmen and now holds Flying Tigers displays, Delta's Monroe beginnings and a park of retired aircraft.
• Northeast Louisiana Delta African American Heritage Museum — 5.6 mi
  A museum chartered in 1994 that tells the story of the Black pioneers of Monroe and northeast Louisiana, with local art, quilts and the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail's only Ouachita Parish stop.

More markers nearby

• Mr. Jack Hayes / Mrs. Ann Stapp Hayes — steps away
• Ouachita Parish High School — steps away
• Prairie des Canots Seat of Justice — steps away
• St. Matthew Catholic Church — 0.3 mi