Jackson Barracks

The post was bought and built in pieces. Congress funded barracks in the Federal Fortifications Act of July 1832, and the government bought its first ground from Pierre Cotteret on December 14, 1833. Lieutenant Frederick Wilkinson designed and supervised the work from 1832 to 1836, and the first troops moved in by February 1837. More land north of St. Claude Avenue came from Prudence Desilets in 1848, and a hospital rose in 1849 and was pulled down in 1888, its wood reused for bungalows. The old powder magazine became a museum in 1977.

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