Fort St. Leon

This fort never saw the attack it was built for. Americans rebuilt it in 1808 on the old French site and planned nine guns, but only four were mounted when the British closed on New Orleans in December 1814. The British did not attack it, and the work was finished in January 1815. The ground had held earthworks since the 1720s, and a 1754 French rebuild produced two four-bastion forts, one named for St. Leon with 19 guns. Dates for the Spanish fort's end run from 1780 to 1792.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 4.2 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.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 7.6 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 Cabildo — 7.7 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.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — 7.7 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

• Bellechasse Plantation — 2.6 mi
• Plantation of Jacques Philippe Villere — 3.3 mi
• Plaquemines Parish — 3.5 mi
• Versailles Oaks — 3.6 mi