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"Plan Projected for a Cooperation of Defense of the Mississippi with Ft. St. Philip" Drawn by cartographer and draftsman Guillaume Tell Poussin, 1817 Ink and wash on paper

This planned fort, to work in cooperation with the existing colonial era Fort St. Phillip on the East Bank of the Mississippi River in what is now Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, was constructed starting in 1822 on the West Bank of the Mississippi, and named Fort Jackson.

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