Historical Markers and War Memorials in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
Clinton is the parish seat for East Feliciana Parish
Adjacent to East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
East Baton Rouge Parish(454) ► St. Helena Parish(7) ► West Baton Rouge Parish(41) ► West Feliciana Parish(25) ► Amite County, Mississippi(16) ► Wilkinson County, Mississippi(89) ►
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On St. Helena Street (State Highway 10) at Liberty Street (State Highway 67), on the right when traveling west on St. Helena Street.
This courthouse, built in 1840, is one of the architectural treasures of the state. The present building replaced a wooden courthouse that dated from 1825-26, which was burned in March, 1839. This is one of the oldest courthouses in Louisiana which . . . — — Map (db m92418) HM
Near Woodville Street west of Liberty Street (Louisiana Highway 67), on the right when traveling east.
Courthouse and Lawyers' Row
Historic District
has been designated a
National
Historic Landmark
This site possesses national significance
in commemorating the history of the
United States of America
1974
Heritage . . . — — Map (db m92413) HM
On Woodville Street west of Liberty Street (Louisiana Highway 67), on the right when traveling west.
Constructed ca. 1840-1865. Outstanding group of early 19th century Classical style offices. Early occupants were noted for their contributions to the political and judicial history of the area and the state. — — Map (db m242377) HM
On Church Street north of Marston Street, on the right when traveling north.
First Episcopal services in Clinton conducted in 1842 by Rev. William B. Lacey, president of College of Louisiana at Jackson. Parish organized in 1852. Rev. Frederick Dean was first resident priest. Present church dates from 1871. . . . — — Map (db m92420) HM
On College Street at Pine Street, on the right when traveling south on College Street.
In the late evening of August 3, 1863, Col. John L. Logan's Confederate cavalry (500 men), approached from the northwest by way of the Jackson-Woodville Road. Their scouts soon subdued the Federal pickets with the aid of local residents. . . . — — Map (db m108639) HM
On College Street (State Highway 952) near Sycamore Street, on the right when traveling south.
The 2nd Vermont Battery's flight took it southward {1} down East Colloge Street, It's best hope was to reach the Clinton Road (present-day LA 10), turn East, cross the Spring Branch and rejoin the main body of retreating Federals. The battery's . . . — — Map (db m231804) HM
On College Street at High Street, on the right when traveling south on College Street.
As the Confederates kept up the pressure on the retreating Federals in the ravine to your distant front {1}, Sergeant Willis W. Davis of West Feliciana
was killed near this intersection {2} while leading an attack at the side of Colonel . . . — — Map (db m108664) HM
On College Street south of High Street, on the right when traveling south.
As the remaining gun of the 2nd Vermont rumbled by this point, hotly pursued by Confederate cavalry {1}, the main body of Federal infantry and cavalry {2} made its way, under Confederate pressure, through the woods and ravine and reached . . . — — Map (db m108671) HM
On East College Street north of Erin Street, on the right when traveling north.
From this point, a domed clock tower can be seen (to your left) above the distant tree line. This building (completed circa 1855) was known in 1863 as the State Insane Asylum. The surviving crew of the 2nd Vermont Battery probably reached Spring . . . — — Map (db m226648) HM
On State Highway 951, 0.1 miles south of Charter Street (State Highway 10), on the left when traveling south.
Lt. Col. McKowen, 1st. La. Cavalry, C.S.A., who on June 3, 1863, with 5 men captured Brig. Gen. Neal Dow near here. Dow was later exchanged for Brig. Gen. W.H.F. Lee, son of Gen. Robert E. Lee. A former mayor of Portland, Me. Dow ran for president . . . — — Map (db m85778) HM
Near College Street near Pine Street, on the right when traveling north.
Constructed between 1855 and 1857, the Main Academic Building had four stories and contained classrooms, offices, meeting halls, a gymnasium, an observatory (until 1870), and an auditorium that could seat 2,000 people in the central portion of the . . . — — Map (db m108620) HM
Near College Street (State Highway 952) at Pine Street, on the right when traveling north.
Centenary College minutes dated October 7, 1861 read, "Students have all gone to war. College suspended and God help the right." From 1861 to 1866 the college remained closed. Both Union and Confederate troops used and misused college buildings and . . . — — Map (db m85521) HM
Near College Street near Pine Street, on the right when traveling north.
The East Wing dormitory was the first of the campus structures to be built. Built between 1832 and 1833, the building was designed by Captain Delafield, and constructed by Alexander Smith of Wilkinson County, Mississippi at a cost of $14,000.00 . . . — — Map (db m108617) HM
Near College Street near Pine Street, on the right when traveling north.
The Professor's Cottage was built in 1898 and rented to a professor and his family for about $125 per year. It was one of the faculty houses owned by the college, which included another cottage that was identical to it located approximately 40 . . . — — Map (db m108618) HM
Near Sycamore Street east of College Street (State Highway 952).
This locomotive represents the pinnacle of success for Crown Metal Products, one of America's
largest producers of amusement park trains from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was
founded by Ken Williams, who began by manufacturing 15 inch and . . . — — Map (db m168094) HM
On Church Street at Horton Street on Church Street.
Pioneer of Jackson and officer in the
State Militia. This area was commonly
called "Bear Corners" because of the
many black bears along Thompson Creek.
After Horton and Ficklin established
the town, it was named Buncombe after
their native . . . — — Map (db m227230) HM
On College Street (State Highway 952) at High Street (State Highway 952), on the right when traveling south on College Street.
Jackson became the seat of justice for Feliciana Parish by Act of Legislature, Jan., 1815. Public town square donated by James Ficklin and John Horton. In active use until parish divided into East and West Feliciana in February, 1824. — — Map (db m85776) HM
Near Sycamore Street east of College Street (Louisiana Highway 952), on the left when traveling east.
The domination of Europeans over this section
of Louisiana is divided into five epochs:
French----1717 to 1763
British----1763 to 1779
Spanish----1779 to 1810
Independent*----Sept.10 to Dec. 7
United States----1810
*Republic of West . . . — — Map (db m85780) HM
On Charter Street (State Highway 10) east of Church Street, on the right when traveling east.
Founded as seat of justice for Feliciana Parish, 1815. College of Louisiana founded here, 1825. Became Centenary College, 1845. State insane asylum founded here, 1847. Historic district on National Register of Historic Places. — — Map (db m91969) HM
On Old Scenic Highway (State Highway 964) at Dougherty Lane, on the left when traveling north on Old Scenic Highway.
1 mile SW. Built c. 1848 by Albert G. Carter. A portion of Sarah Morgan Dawson's A Confederate Girl's Diary was written here. Bombardment of Port Hudson and other events at Linwood are described in this important Civil War source. . . . — — Map (db m93427) HM
On College Street (State Highway 952) south of Sycamore Street, on the right when traveling south.
LOCKRIDGE COTTAGE is one of the oldest surviving
buildings in the Jackson Historic District. It was probably built
by JOHN EAGAN who purchased the property in April 1820
from the JAMES H. FICKLIN estate. In August 1820. . . . — — Map (db m226616) HM
On Sycamore Street at Bank Street, on the right when traveling west on Sycamore Street.
Host to Mississippi Conference in 1854. The Gothic building with a Revival basilica, slave gallery, windows depicting cross and crown of thorns, has served its congregation 140 years. — — Map (db m85820) HM
On High Street at College Street (Louisiana Highway 952), on the left when traveling west on High Street.
And used for that purpose until the division of the Parish into East and West Feliciana in 1824.
This building has been owned by the Jackson Assembly since 1969. — — Map (db m93350) HM
In 1864, where the main road once entered
town, the 17yr. old Confederate soldier was
killed by pursuing Yankee cavalry as he
carried a secret dispatch. While attempting.
to gallop across broken bridge decking,
his mount failed to clear a . . . — — Map (db m226717) HM
On Charter Street (State Highway 10) east of Church Street, on the right when traveling east.
This stop on the Old Republic Trail honors the wildly independent, freedom loving settlers of Spanish West Florida's Districts of Feliciana, Baton Rouge, St. Helena and St. Ferdinand for their remarkable role in Louisiana history.These early . . . — — Map (db m108626) HM
On Carrs Creek Road (State Highway 68) at Charter Street (State Highway 10), on the right when traveling north on Carrs Creek Road.
At noon, June 20, 1863, at the crossroads, a long Union wagon train, escorted by 300 cavalry and 500 infantry, from the 52nd. Mass, Vols., the 2nd. Rhode Island, and Grierson's 7th Ill. cavalry, was ambushed by a Confederate battalion of La. and . . . — — Map (db m108615) HM
"Owing to the ruggedness of the ground and felled timbers, the enemy could not preserve their lines intact and soon became a conglomerate mass. We waited their approach in silence. When within forty yards we were commanded to fire. A blaze of . . . — — Map (db m128569) HM
"The attack was a huge bushwhack. The rebels availed themselves of the thickets, trees, fallen timber ridges, ravines and also of rifle pits and networks of earth and log construction at convenient points and being concealed and protected gave . . . — — Map (db m129209) HM
"Two pieces of siege artillery were removed during Tuesday (May 26
1863) night from the heavy batteries on the river and mounted on
this line---one rifled 24 pounder, under command of Lieutenant
Sanford, Company A, First regiment Alabama . . . — — Map (db m128532) HM
"...no less than four mortars were planted for the purpose of shelling our rifle pits, and the battery at Bennetts stables immediately opposite, but these after firing steadily for several days & nights, without doing us the slightest damage, . . . — — Map (db m128273) HM
"During the fierce assault on May 27 on our whole left wing, Commissary Hill was an essential object of attack. Here we had a four gun battery, and behind it were our commissary stores, arsenal and old ginhouse containing the little grist mills . . . — — Map (db m128494) HM
Near U.S. 61, 1 mile north of Plains/Port Hudson Road, on the left when traveling north.
"Colonel Johnson had galleries dug under his breastworks through which his men could crawl into the outer ditch and sharp shoot from that..." Lieutenant Howard C. Wright Company C 30th Louisiana Infantry Regiment In order to have safe . . . — — Map (db m100640) HM
Near U.S. 61, 1 mile north of Plains/Port hudson Road, on the left when traveling north.
"I had a small flanking pit constructed on the outside or rather under my works, and on the left thereof, and from which I continued a deadly fire until he [the enemy] left the ditch. This pit was subterranean and could not be seen from the . . . — — Map (db m100641) HM
Field artillery cannon, like 6-pounder guns and 20-pounder Parrotts, were towed from location to location by two wheeled carriages called limbers. Teams of six or four horses, grouped in pairs, were harnessed to the limbers, and the left side . . . — — Map (db m128509) HM
Near U.S. 61, 1 mile north of Plains/Port Hudson Road, on the left when traveling north.
"At this junction what was supposed to be a flag of truce was raised, and the rebels, thinking it was a signal for a cessation of hostilities, ceased firing along the line, during which the regiment sought and secured a safer position not quite . . . — — Map (db m100643) HM
"A desperate charge carried a small force of men through this road to a
very advance position which they successfully held, in one of these gullies.
Luckily we got into a fine place and were able to hold our own, though I
was in mortal fear . . . — — Map (db m128868) HM
Near U.S. 61, 1 mile north of Plains-Port Hudson Road, on the left when traveling north.
"…so terrible had been the fighting....that the position was called Fort Desperate."
Colonel Benjamin W. Johnson
15th Arkansas Infantry Regiment
Commander of Fort Desperate
Not a fort but a defensive . . . — — Map (db m97268) HM
Near U.S. 61, 1 mile north of Plains/Port Hudson Road.
"Seeing Colonel Steadman's right wing...heavily pressed and in danger of being flanked, I ordered Lieutenant Edrington to open upon him [advancing Union forces] with shrapnel and shell. He fired with great rapidity, coolness and precision" . . . — — Map (db m100637) HM
"Nearly all the pieces stationed upon the Commissary Hill, to guard the
approaches to the mill between the left wing and the center, were either
dismounted or other wise disabled. Against this point, the enemy had
established two batteries of . . . — — Map (db m128495) HM
"Another (solid shot) struck a tree about thirty feet from the ground, cutting it completely off at a point eight inches in diameter the top as it fell killing one horse and crushing a caisson of the First Maine Battery, a little in front of the . . . — — Map (db m128531) HM
"Lieut. Rhodes...deployed his men at intervals so as to occupy the whole ridge commenced firing on the enemy [black Union troops] both front and rear doing terrible execution and throwing them into confusion and disorder, they still continued to . . . — — Map (db m128272) HM
Near U.S. 61, 1 mile north of Plains/Port Hudson Road, on the left when traveling north.
"At the same time the approaches to Fort Desperate were checked by deadly fire of the Arkansas marksmen there, who, perched up in their sharpshooter tower, could fire down into every part of the enemy's ditch, which had now been brought within . . . — — Map (db m100638) HM
"About the middle of the siege, the enemy attempted to make a sneak through our lines in the night. A picked command was formed, possibly a thousand men. They selected the slaughter pen route. This pen stood on a high bluff, deep ravines from . . . — — Map (db m128492) HM
"Colonel Steedman having been put in command of the left wing, composed of the First Alabama, 15th Arkansas and 10th Arkansas, a detachment of Wingfield's battalion and 39th Mississippi regiment. Colonel Steedman, during the siege, won the . . . — — Map (db m128533) HM
Near State Highway 61, 1 mile north of Pride/Port Hudson Rd., on the left when traveling north.
"...as an additional security against assault, now that the enemy had approached so near, I had a number of 8, 10, and 13-inch shells planted in the scrap wall of ditches as "torpedoes" and connected them by means of wires, with the interior of . . . — — Map (db m97320) HM
Robert Parker Parrott, a former U.S. army officer,
invented a series of rifled, reinforced-breech, iron cannon.
The cannon were manufactured at the West Point Foundry
in Cold Springs, New York, and were made in different
calibers: 10-pounder . . . — — Map (db m128869) HM
Near U.S. 61, 0.4 miles south of State Highway 68, on the right when traveling south.
Marker 1
32-pounder guns were the smallest standard "sea-coast" cannon and among the smallest "ship-borne" cannon in 1861. These cannon were made of iron, were designed with smoothbore barrels, and were intended to throw solid shot at long . . . — — Map (db m96867) HM
Near Old Highway 61 North (U.S. 61) 0.4 miles south of Louisiana Highway 68, on the right when traveling south.
Both the U.S. Army and Navy started using 42-pounder cannons early in the 19th century. They were among the largest cannons in use at that time. Due to their great size and weight, these cannons were used only at established forts and on the . . . — — Map (db m86234) HM
Near U.S. 61, 1 mile north of Plains-Port Hudson Road, on the left when traveling north.
Marker 1
In 1822, Lieutenant Colonel Paixhan, of the French artillery, submitted a plan for using long-chambered cannon at slight elevations to throw large heavy shells at a long range in the same way as solid shot.
Other countries, . . . — — Map (db m96897) HM
Near U.S. 61, 1 mile north of Port Hudson/Plains Road, on the left when traveling north.
"…a cleared space was found, overlooking deep ravines in which trees had been chopped down and left as they fell, and on the opposite side of which the newly thrown up works of the enemy (Fort Desperate) were plainly visible. The two . . . — — Map (db m97263) HM
Near U.S. 61, 1 mile north of Plains-Port Hudson Road, on the left when traveling north.
"...they (the Federals) threw up rifle pits all around my works, distant about two hundred and fifty yards, and all of these, aided by artillery, he kept up a terrible and steady fire upon every part of my position..."
-- Colonel . . . — — Map (db m97259) HM
"About the 10th of June, the enemy planted four mortars in position
near the battery opposite Bennett''s House. These mortars gave us
great annoyance; they were fired day and night, to the very great
disturbance of our troops; yet few were . . . — — Map (db m129393) HM
".. I am still with Rochester battery and think so far I like artillery
service better than the infantry... Captain Harrower shows himself
to be a brave and prudent commander."
--Private George Coleman
Company B
161st New York . . . — — Map (db m129243) HM
"..to our right and left upon tree trunks, were nailed white
crosses which had evidently served for practice, to get the
exact range of the rebel guns, and they had it. For instance, a
section of the First Maine Battery came plunging . . . — — Map (db m129221) HM
Near U.S. 61, 1 mile north of Plains/Port Hudson Road, on the left when traveling north.
"With admirable celebrity the pioneers (trail blazers) opened up the roads and Capt. Duryea brought up the division artillery and within fifteen minutes after driving him (Confederate skirmishers) in, our batteries were answering his guns from . . . — — Map (db m100645) HM
Near U.S. 61, 1 mile north of Plains-Port Hudson Road, on the left when traveling north.
"...on the front of another division commander, I find another serpentine approach, which has been dug very wide, and yet could not admit more than four or five men abreast. It ends near the rebel parapet..."
Lieutenant Colonel Edward . . . — — Map (db m98772) HM
Near U.S. 61, 1 mile north of Plains/Port Hudson Road, on the left when traveling north.
"...he [attacking Union troops] moved...up to my ditch again, and by digging a small place, or bank that intervened between the head of the ravine and the said ditch [the exterior ditch surrounding Fort Desperate]. which was not more than one . . . — — Map (db m100642) HM
On Church Street (State Highway 412) east of West Avenue, on the right when traveling east.
Organized May 27, 1905 and opened for business
Sept. 12, 1905. The initial capitalization was $15,000.
It continued in operation until the Banking Panics of
the Great Depression when it failed along with about
11,000 of 30,000 banks nationally. . . . — — Map (db m128279) HM
