Chalmette National Battlefield – Chalmette, Louisiana
The Creole Queen took us to Chalmette that was an hours ride away. Along the journey a narrator spoke about the history of New Orleans interspersing commentary on various sites we passed. We admired the NOLA skyline, saw transport ships at dock, passed the Domino sugar plant that produces billions of pounds of sugar a year, and finally Chalmette. After deboarding we walked along the levee before making our way to the National Battlefield.
Upon arrival at the Chalmette Battlefield we observed where a disparate band of a few thousand Americans led by Andrew Jackson took on a superior British force leading to a decisive victory and thousands of enemy casualties. This would later thrust Jackson into the national spotlight.
The Beauregard House built a few years after the famous battle once served as a Visitor Center. Today it is vacant and suffering from the ravages of time, weather, and termites.