Image Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site is located at 155 Rue Jefferson on the banks of the Cane River in Natchitoches, the oldest town in the Louisiana Purchase.  The reconstructed facility is an exact replica of the fort as it existed in 1732. 

It includes a long barracks building, small warehouse, chapel, mess hall and several Indian huts. The original Fort St. Jean Baptiste was built in 1716 by Sieur Charles Claude Dutisnè in order to prevent Spanish forces in the province of Texas from advancing across the border of French Louisiane.

 

The fort served as a military outpost and commercial trade center until 1762, when France’s defeat by England in the French and Indian War forced her to cede the Louisiana colony to Spain.



Fort St. Jean Baptiste Photo Gallery

 
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