Springfield's Role in West Florida Revolution

Springfield mattered in 1810 partly because of water. The town grew in the eighteenth century at the northernmost navigable point on the Natalbany River, which gave boats a way down through Lake Maurepas and Lake Pontchartrain to New Orleans, and by Bayou Manchac to Baton Rouge. That made it a landing for the Florida Parishes when English and American settlers tried to form their own state, the short-lived Republic of West Florida, in 1810. Bricks from an old Spanish fort can still be found about two hundred yards in front of the post office.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tickfaw State Park — 5.9 mi
  A floodplain park on the Tickfaw River, with cypress-tupelo swamp, bottomland hardwoods and about 4.75 miles of trails and boardwalks, plus a nature center with an 800-gallon river aquarium.

More markers nearby

• Springfield — steps away
• Carter Plantation — 1.7 mi
• Hungarian Settlement — 3.9 mi
• Albany, Louisiana — 5.3 mi