Rosedale Road (LA Hwy. 986)

Rosedale Road carried the tail end of a failed campaign. When the Red River expedition collapsed in the spring of 1864, Nathaniel Banks's column fell back toward the Mississippi, its gunboats stranded above the falls until Col. Joseph Bailey's dam raised the water enough to float them. Near the river Banks was met by Gen. Edward Canby, newly named his superior in a department created for the purpose. The failure effectively ended Banks's military career, and quarrels over cotton speculators and army boats followed him into his postwar races for Congress.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Louisiana State Capitol — 3.7 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.
• Old State Capitol — 3.7 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• Capitol Park Museum — 3.8 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• LSU Rural Life Museum — 8.7 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.

More markers nearby

• Cohn High School — 1.9 mi
• Port Allen Prisoner-Of-War Sub-Camp No. 7 — 2.5 mi
• Third Parish Courthouse — 2.6 mi
• Allendale Plantation — 2.6 mi