Rodriguez Canal is a disused
millrace for a
sawmill between the
Chalmette and Macarty
plantations. The dilapidated
canal measured about four feet deep by twenty feet wide at the time of the
Battle of New Orleans, and stood as a natural
battlefield divide between the combatants.
General Jackson arranged his defensive line behind this ditch, building
ramparts behind it. Today, the canal ruins form part of the
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve. ==Illustrations==