Jean Lafitte Historic Resource Study (Chalmette Unit)

The following listed sites and structures represent the significant known cultural resources reposing within the boundaries of the Chalmette Unit. Specific information about each is encompassed in the body of this report.

1. Rodriguez Canal.

2. Site of American intrenchments and artillery batteries.

3. Site of Rodriguez Plantation complex.

4. Site of British advance batteries of January 1, 1815.

5. Site of British attacks of December 28, 1814; January 1, 1815; and January 8, 1815, including the sites of Centre Road and the several drainage ditches that traversed the field.

6. Chalmette Monument.

7. Spotts Marker.

8. Site of Confederate earthworks. (While the site of most of the intrenchments proper lies beyond the east wall of the national cemetery, part of the area of occupation of the works was within the present park boundary.

9. National Cemetery.

10. G.A.R. Monument.