Fort St. Ferdinand Moat Planks

ID: 4812 ~ Source: University of New Orleans Department of Anthropology

This file appears in: Congo Square/Armstrong Park

A closeup photograph of the wooden planks that lined the Fort St. Ferdinand moat. This moat connected each of the five forts surrounding New Orleans.

This file appears in: Congo Square/Armstrong Park

Congo Square/Armstrong Park

By Allison Robin & Charlotte Willcox, editor

During 1977 and 1978, the University of New Orleans conducted an archaeological project within what is now Armstrong Park. It focused on two areas, the Jazz Complex, a small area around what had been…