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2023 Regular Session
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOL UTION NO. 42
BY REPRESENTATIVE CORMIER AND SENATOR CONNICK
A CONCURRENT RESOL UTION
To memorialize the United States Congress to take such actions as are necessary to establish
Fort Jackson in Plaquemines Parish as a national park.
WHEREAS, on August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the "Organic
Act" creating the National Park Service, a federal bureau in the Department of the Interior
responsible for maintaining national parks and monuments; and
WHEREAS, today, the National Park Service manages four hundred individual units
which cover more than eighty-five million acres in all fifty states, the District of Columbia,
and US territories; and
WHEREAS, the National Park System also includes more than one hundred fifty
related areas and numerous programs that assist in conserving the nation's natural and
cultural heritage; and
WHEREAS, Fort Jackson is situated thirty-two nautical miles from the Gulf of
Mexico and sixty-five miles in a southeasterly direction from New Orleans on the west bank
of the Mississippi River in Plaquemines Parish and possesses nationally significant natural
and cultural resources; and
WHEREAS, construction of Fort Jackson was begun in 1822 upon the
recommendation of its namesake General Andrew Jackson who recognized the need for
additional fortifications to protect the mouth of the Mississippi River from attack; and
WHEREAS, the construction of star-shaped Fort Jackson was completed in 1832,
and the fort was readied for service during the Mexican War in 1846; and
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WHEREAS, in April of 1862, Fort Jackson was the site of an important battle of the
Civil War, sustaining days of shelling as Confederate troops fought, to prevent Union forces
from reaching New Orleans; and
WHEREAS, Fort Jackson was donated to Plaquemines Parish in 1960 and since that
time the parish and its people have invested in the conservation and renovation of the fort,
which efforts have made it one of the principal historical attractions in the region.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
memorialize the United States Congress to take such actions as are necessary to establish
Fort Jackson in Plaquemines Parish as a national park.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
presiding officers of the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Congress of the
United States of America and to each member of the Louisiana congressional delegation.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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