Jackson Barracks

Katrina nearly erased the post. On August 29, 2005, the surge broke the Industrial Canal levee and put more than 20 feet of water over parts of the barracks, wrecking almost the whole complex. Residents and troops were boated to the river levee and flown to the Superdome by Guard helicopters. Congress paid for rebuilding in full, reportedly $325 million, with new buildings raised above the first floor, and FEMA put $35 million toward the old powder magazine and fourteen antebellum houses. The Guard's military history museum reopened on the post in 2013, and headquarters stayed where it was.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 1.4 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 — 3.4 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 — 3.5 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 — 3.5 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

• Jackson Barracks — steps away
• Fazendeville — 1.2 mi
• The Kentucky Rifle — 1.2 mi
• Kentucky Militia — 1.3 mi