U.S. Navy

The Carolina's last morning was December 27, 1814. She had dropped down the Mississippi on December 23 and shelled the British bivouac, and she kept at it for days with two gunboats. Then the British built a concealed battery about 800 yards away, and heated shot set her on fire just before 8 a.m. Her crew abandoned her, most escaping with two cannon, and she blew up at 10:30. The Louisiana, about 300 yards off, used a breeze, then warping and hard towing, to get upstream out of range.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Chalmette Battlefield — 0.2 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.
• The Cabildo — 4.3 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 — 4.3 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 — 4.4 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

• Louisiana Militia — steps away
• U.S. Marines — steps away
• Choctaw Nation — steps away
• Kentucky Militia — steps away