Map of New Orleans and vicinity

ID: 4826 ~ Source: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu ~ Creator: Pintado, Vicente Sebastián, 1774-1829., Trudeau, Charles Laveau, approximately 1750-1816. ~ Date: 1819
This file appears in: Congo Square/Armstrong Park
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division

This 1804 map shows the boundaries of New Orleans and five fortifications surrounding the city. Fort San Fernando was located at current-day Congo Square. The pentagon shape at the center-top of the map represents the fort.
According the the Library of Congress, "[t]his map is an 1873 copy of the original 1804 map copied by Pintado (in Havana in 1819) and verified by Pilié, the New Orleans Surveyor in 1838. The map reflects information compiled by Pintado in 1795-96 and set down by Trudeau in official records in 1804."

This file appears in: Congo Square/Armstrong Park